"Know?" said Church. "Don't we know?"
"How do we?"
"Well--I don't know, only--"
"Yes, only."
"You ain't going back on us now, I hope?",
"No, but--" Grey shook his head.
"Well, you heard what the judge said."
They could always appeal to what the judge had said, as if he spoke with some authority that was above all others.
"What'd he say?" asked Grey.
"Why--he said--what was that there word now?"