"O'Brien and McMullins were only in for one day and a night."
"That was because you begged 'em off. But nobody'll beg me off. Say! would you shut me up here for speaking on the walk?"
"Perhaps not; but you knew the rule, and disobeyed,—it is for disobedience that you are punished."
"Ever so many of them talked,—they all talk; but none of 'em got punished but me. They've got a spite against me,—is that right."
"Perhaps that is your jealousy, Callahan."
"No, it isn't. Four of us were talking together. If Thingsly saw one, she saw the whole of us."
"Perhaps it isn't for that you are punished."
"Won't you find out? Won't you ask Hardhack?"
"No, I don't wish to."
"Are you afraid of her?"