"I reckon I ain't answering fool questions."
"Why did you shoot at us?"
"Did I?"
"You know you did."
"What's your name?" asked the mountaineer, evading the question.
"My name is Rector—-Ned Rector."
"Where you from?"
"Missouri."
"What you doing here?"
"Maybe I am traveling for my health," answered Ned with a half sneer.
He was not advancing his own cause by his attitude.