"Listen, Tom, listen to me, please. And take off that horrid, stubborn expression. You look exactly like a sulky child. There, that's much better. Don't smile if it hurts you, grumpy. There, I knew it would come. Oh, it's gone again. Well, anyhow, you haven't forgotten how to smile, and that's a blessing."
"I hate to hurry yuh, but——"
"I know what a bore it is to be compelled to listen to me, but you'll have to endure the ordeal. Listen, if it hadn't been for me Rudd wouldn't have been here to-day, and you wouldn't have caught him."
"We'd have caught him later."
"Perhaps you wouldn't. At any rate, he'd probably have had a chance to make a fight. As it is, he was caught like a rat in a trap. And if it wasn't for me he wouldn't be in the trap."
"Marvin would 'a' got him if we didn't."
"Marvin has nothing to do with it. The fact remains that I am to blame for the capture of Rudd."
"We're much obliged to yuh."
"That isn't worthy of you, Tom."
"I beg yore pardon. I was too quick."