“You—you—uh—” stammers Dirty. “You won’t tell, w-will yuh, Ike?”
“Ain’t you dead—yet?” gasps Muley.
“Enough,” says I, “enough to foller out the old saying—dead men tell no tales. I’ve got eyesight enough left to see the lights of Buck’s place.”
“L-let’s go tut-to it,” stammers Dirty.
Which shows that Piperock never started anything that they couldn’t finish—after a fashion.