"I know you aren't, and so I don't see why you want me to be.

You know, and I know, that the Vigilance Committee has turned rotten to the core; every decent man in San Francisco knows it.

You know that Sandy killed that Spaniard in self-defense--or if you didn't see the fracas, I tell you now that he did; I saw the whole thing.

You know, at any rate, that the Vigilantes took him out and hung him because they wanted to get rid of him, and that came the nearest to an excuse they could find.

You know--" "Oh, I know!" Bill's voice was sardonic.