“Oh, I knows yer is game, and I has just seen thet yer kin bluff, but thet don’t go now.”
“What does?”
“Ropes is trumps.”
“You intend to hang me, then?”
“We does.”
“Without judge or jury?”
“We have set on your case, and it is agin’ yer.”
“When am I to be hanged, please?”
“Afore dawn.”
“Isn’t that crowding matters a little?”