"Put that down," said Hardy contemptuously. "You might hurt somebody," he added, smiling.
"Ain't yuh goin' to do it?" Uncle Henry asked.
"As I was going to say—" Hardy started, when Uncle Henry interrupted him with:
"But it was what he done!"
"Who?" asked Hardy.
"The bandit," Uncle Henry answered.
"Will you keep still?" Hardy urged.
"Certainly not!" Uncle Henry went on. "I got a gun here and I—"
Hardy reached for the weapon. "I'm holdin' you up, gol darn it!" Jasper Hardy took the gun as he would have taken a bag of peanuts from a child, and handed it to Gilbert with a wink.