The Gray Seal goes out for keeps--curse him for a snitch! If I bumped him off, or wised up any of the guys to it, and we was caught, we'd get the juice for it even if it was the Gray Seal, wouldn't we?
Well, what's the use! If one of you dicks get him, he gets bumped off just the same, only regular, up in the wire parlour at Sing Sing.

I ain't looking for that kind of trouble when I can duck it.

See ?" "Sure," said Lannigan.
"Besides, and moreover," continued Whitey Mack, "there's SOME reward hung out for him that I'm figuring to born in on.

I'd swipe it all myself, don't you make any mistake about that, and you'd never get a look-in, only, sore as the mob is on the Gray Seal, it ain't healthy for any guy around these parts to get the reputation of being a snitch, no matter who he snitches on.

Bump him off--sure! Snitching--well, you get the idea, eh?
I'm ducking that too.