“If you can.”

“Wall, I kin.”

“Look here!” said Frank, sharply. “I want to know what sort of a chap you are. I can tell by your talk that you are not a greaser.”

The fellow laughed.

“In course I ain’t,” he replied. “But what of that?”

“Well, you must be a miserable wretch to mix up with them.”

“That’s nothin’ to you.”

“Of course not. Yet I would give one of my own countrymen credit for better sense than that.”

“Wall, I don’t ax any odds of you nor nobody else. Let go of my wrist or I’ll stick this knife atwixt yer ribs.”

“I have no idea of it.”