"Mebbe you'd clean forgot what you come here to do, too," derided Eleazer.
"No. Oh, no. I didn't forget that. I was just leadin' up to it in a sorter tactful way."
"There ain't no way of bein' tactful when you're arrestin' folks. You've got the thing to do an' you have to go straight to it."
A fork clattered from Marcia's shaking hand to the floor.
"Arresting folks?" she repeated, looking from one man to the other.
"Yes. Since 'Lish is so spineless at his job, I may's well tell you what we come for. He don't 'pear to have no notion of doin' so," Eleazer sneered. "Pretty kind of a sheriff he is! You'd think to see him he was at an afternoon tea."
"You better look out, Eleazer Crocker, how you insult an officer of the law," Elisha bawled angrily. "Say a word more an' I'll hail you into court."
"If you don't land me there faster'n you do Heath I shan't worry," jeered Eleazer.
"Heath? Mr. Heath?" Marcia repeated.
"Yes. We come over here this mornin' to place Mr. Stanley Heath under arrest," Eleazer announced.