"If you'd been trailin' him like me an' the boys has, you'd know it.

Trouble is, that Singleton is holdin' off.

A dozen times we've been close enough to ketch Singleton with the goods--if he'd do the brandin'.

But he don't, an' Hamlin has to do it--with Singleton watchin'.

We've framed up on him a dozen times.
But he lets Hamlin run the iron on 'em.