Then in there I see a man stretched on the floor and tied hand and foot, and two men standing over him, and one of them had a dim lantern in his hand, and the other one had a pistol.

This one kept pointing the pistol at the man's head on the floor, and saying: "I'd LIKE to! And I orter, too--a mean skunk!" The man on the floor would shrivel up and say, "Oh, please don't, Bill; I hain't ever goin' to tell." And every time he said that the man with the lantern would laugh and say: "'Deed you AIN'T! You never said no truer thing 'n that, you bet you." And once he said: "Hear him beg! and yit if we hadn't got the best of him and tied him he'd a killed us both.

And what FOR?
Jist for noth'n.
Jist because we stood on our RIGHTS--that's what for.

But I lay you ain't a-goin' to threaten nobody any more, Jim Turner.

Put UP that pistol, Bill." Bill says: "I don't want to, Jake Packard.