That's one reason he's all rattled.

So I'll answer for him and I hope that'll satisfy you.

He hasn't got the money and he never saw it and he never heard of it.

It's down at the bottom of Black Lake, that's where it is.
Don't you suppose he had something better to do with himself when he was saving that gold dust twin, than to be going through his pockets ?" "I'm sure I would," Vic Norris said.
"_You!_" I said, "you couldn't even have held him up in the water and you know plaguy well you couldn't--there's not one of you that could.
If you thought more about what he was doing out there in all that storm with his teeth in that fellow's sweater and his hand being blamed near bitten off, it would be better for _you_.

All _you're_ thinking about is getting the gold cross into your patrol.