You'd croak a man if you had to, and this is a time when we've got to do it to save ourselves." "Well, I won't stand for it while I'm sober, and I'm sober now even if I have had a drink or two." Hank reached for a firebrand with which to relight his pipe.
"Well, you've got to stand for this.

I'm mixed up in it just as much as you be, and I'm goin' to have some say.

I ain't goin' to take chances on him goin' back to his gang and givin' us away." "How you goin' to do it ?" "Take him along in the boat and drop him overboard.

That's the easiest way.

There ain't much chance of anybody findin' him, and if they do they'll just think he got drowned some way hisself.