“Well, he did, at first; but I argued the thing out with him.”
“He didn’t seem to be open to argument?”
“He changed his mind, when I told him if he wouldn’t take my argument any other way I’d open a hole in his head with a bullet and so get it in. That weakened him. Improved much in your marksmanship lately, Moses?” the Fool asked airily.
“Ah, drop it!” the fiddler growled.
“I ain’t heard that you have killed Buffalo Bill yet!”
“That’s all righdt. But ve ditn’t come here for shoking.”
“No?”
“We come hyer to talk business,” said Gopher Gabe. “But first I’d like to look at them prisoners.”
“Doubt my word, eh?”