The doctor don't answer, and then the colonel says:
"Has it occurred to you that I may have saved it because I want it?"
"WANT it?"
"Do you know of any one who has a better right to TAKE it than I have? Perhaps I saved it because it BELONGS to me—do you suppose I want any one else to kill what I have the best right to kill?"
"Tom," says Doctor Kirby, really puzzled, to judge from his actions, "I don't understand what makes you say you have the right to take my life."
"Dave, where is my sister buried?" asts Colonel Tom.
"Buried?" says Doctor Kirby. "My God, Tom, is she DEAD?"
"I ask you," says Colonel Tom.
"And I ask you," says Doctor Kirby.
And they looked at each other, both wonderized, and trying to understand. And it busted on me all at oncet who them two men really was.