“Aw, he’s just talkin’ too much, like he always does,” Brick volunteered.
“Sure, he’s always doing that.”
“I’m wonderin’ if he’ll queer the works—”
“Yer nuts. What kin he do? Look what we got—”
“I know, but I’m doin’ some thinkin’ by myself. Maybe he ain’t bringing the Boss back at all, and we’ll sit here waitin—”
“And not get nothin’?” snapped Joe.
“Might be sumpin like that—”
“Listen, Joe—if Gordon and the Boss are not here in half an hour, we’ll divide this stuff up among ourselves and leave him what we can’t carry away. I know he’ll come and there’s no funny business about it. You agree to that—”
“A lot kin happen in half an hour,” Joe answered.
“Say, whose turning off the lights?” one of the men further back in the temple room demanded sharply.