“No, but you can’t get in.”
“We’ll see! They went in, and so will I.”
“But they’ll get to the top of the cliff over us, and make it too hot for us here.”
“Will they? Then we’ll make it too hot for them there. If they can shoot at us, we can return the fire. If I see a gun flash, lead will go very near where I see that flash.”
“If you hurt any of them, they’ll murder the prisoners.”
“How are we to know they have not done that already? I tell you what it is, Steve—I’ve done fooling! I have not come this far to go back with my hands down, leaving them here to crow. They’ve got to be wiped out.”
“It will be a hard job!”
“Then I’m just in for it. Here comes Captain Meinhold. What shall I tell him?”
“That you’ve holed your game, but diggin’ for it in a rock will be hard work.”