"Do they live there?" asked Hippy.
"Reckon they do now an' ag'in."
"They carry on their business there? Is that what you mean, Julie?" questioned Elfreda.
"Don't know nothin' 'bout that."
The girls exchanged significant glances. True to her type, Julie would not even expose an enemy. The Spurgeons and the Thompsons were feudists, and had time and again made war on each other for several generations, and it was their policy not to talk, but to let their rifles talk for them.
"What you-all goin' t' do?"
"We are going on, of course," announced Lieutenant Wingate.
"You-all shore'll git lammed if ye do," warned Julie.
"No we won't, 'cause I'll con-centrate. I think I will begin this very night, and by the time we reach that Ridge place all will be sweet peace," bubbled Emma.
Hippy Wingate shook his head and sighed.