Then we'll wait.

Now I say it ain't a-goin' to be more'n two hours befo' this wrack breaks up and washes off down the river.

See?
He'll be drownded, and won't have nobody to blame for it but his own self.

I reckon that's a considerble sight better 'n killin' of him.

I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git aroun' it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals.