"But that ain't what Andy and Marsh tell me; they say his friends will see him through, that he's got the general back of him, and money--how's that, Judge ?" "They are making sport of your ignorance," said the judge, almost pityingly.
"I'm done with them!" cried Joe Montgomery with a great oath.

He raised one clenched hand and brought it down in the opened palm of the other.
"Andy's everlastingly lied to me; I won't help send no man up for life!" "What do you mean ?" demanded the judge, astonished at this sudden outburst, and impressed, in spite of himself, by the man's earnestness.
"Just what I say, boss! They can count me out--I'm agin 'em, I'm agin 'em every time!" And again, as if to give force to his words, he swung his heavy first around and struck the open palm of his other hand a stinging blow.

"Eatin' and sleepin', I'm agin 'em! I ain't liked the look of this from the first, and now I'm down and out, and they can go to hell for all of me!" The judge rested an elbow on the chimneypiece and regarded Montgomery curiously.

He knew the man was drunk; he knew that sober he would probably have said much less than he was now saying, but he also knew that there was some powerful feeling back of his words.
"If you are involved in any questionable manner with Mr.Gilmore, I should advise you to think twice before you go further with it.

Mr.
Gilmore is shrewd, he has money; you are a poor man and you are an ignorant man.