He's getting--out of--out of his automobile.

I got him because I'm--I'm a swamp-rat!" Thats just the way he said it, and he hung onto the tree and his fingers were all thin like an old man's and the spots were in his cheeks.

"He's coming!" he panted out.
Just then I could see Doctor Winters coming through the trees with a little black bag.

He must have left his machine out on the road about a hundred yards away.

And I guess Skinny must have jumped out and run in ahead to show him the way and he just kept saying, "I got him, I got him! Because I'm a swamp--rat--everybody says so--and I know the short cut--now can I have a badge--maybe--sometime?
Maybe am I a scout now ?", I just looked at him and it gave me the creeps, because I knew what he had done.