“If you do I’ll holler,” says Catty, “and I kin holler so’s to be heard. They’ll hear me at the house, too.”
“What house?”
“That house,” says Catty, pointing.
“What of it?” says Kinderhook, kind of undecided.
“You’d find out quick,” says Catty.
Then Kinderhook changed his manner a lot and got real friendly. “I’m in a big hurry to get to Litchfield,” says he. “Is there a way around?”
“By goin’ back to town and drivin’ five miles north.”
“But I can’t do that. Now you look here, Sonny, I’ll give you a quarter if you’ll let down that barrier and let me cross.”
“Can’t be done,” says Catty.
“I’ll make it a half.”