“No, didn't hear anything.”

“What is it then? What's up?”

“I don' know, I don' know,” muttered the dentist, lowering the rifle. “There was something.”

“What?”

“Something—didn't you notice?”

“Notice what?”

“I don' know. Something—something or other.”

“Who? What? Notice what? What did you see?”

The dentist let down the hammer of the rifle.

“I guess it wasn't anything,” he said rather foolishly.