"No, sir, that's the reason his example is so good."
"Well, why didn't you follow it from the beginning?"
"I told you why—I don't pretend to be good like Linkern."
"You don't?"
"No, sir, sometimes I think I'm very bad."
"Don't you think you're very bad right now to come here and tell such a story as this, after the State has closed its case, after all these weeks?"
"No, sir."
"And you knew, too, Mitchie, that it was common talk here that Joe Rainey tried to kill Temple Scott and shot at him first?"
"Yes, sir."
"And all the time you were keeping this to yourself for the sake of treasure, and in order to have your own way, and run off?"