“Aren’t you in dangerous territory here?”
Hopwood shook his head slowly. “No, they all think I am crazy, but I have more sense than anybody else in the family. I can eat lunch with Jarred Morgan and supper with Foster Wait, and that’s more than anybody else can do,” he replied proudly.
“Then you don’t believe in this family feud?” Scott inquired eagerly.
Again Hopwood shook his head. “Why should I? They will all be killed if they keep it up. The cemetery is full of them now.”
“Do you think that they would give it up if they had a good chance?”
Hopwood nodded.
“What makes you think so?” This man might be able to give him some useful information even if he was crazy.
“Because they are scared,” Hopwood answered promptly. “Every one of them is scared except old Jarred and Vic. They don’t pay any attention to me and I hear them talk.”
“Then why don’t they give it up?”
“Because they are more scared to quit than they are to go on. If they should quit, old Jarred would kill them all, both Morgans and Waits.”