So they arrested both of us, went through a farce trial, and were trying to hurry me into Kingdom Come before Bill Wilson got a rescue party together, when you come along.

That's all.
They let the kid go--which was a good thing.

I don't think they'll be down here after me.

In fact, I've been thinking maybe I'd go back, in a day or so, and have it out with them." "Yes, that's about what you'd be thinking, all right," retorted Dade unemotionally.

"Sounds perfectly natural." The tone of him, being unsympathetic, precipitated an argument which flung crisp English sentences back and forth across the cabin.