I 'll never lay a finger on you; you can go where you please." "Bah!--ye ain't got no proof--agin me--'sides, the case is closed--it can't be opened agin--by law." "You devil! I 'd be perfectly justified in killing you," exclaimed Hampton, savagely.
Murphy stared at him stupidly, the cunning of incipient insanity in his eyes.

"En' whar--do ye expect--me ter say--all this, pervidin', of course--I wus fule 'nough--ter do it ?" "Up yonder before Custer and the officers of the Seventh, when we get in." "They'd nab me--likely." "Now, see here, you say it is impossible for them to touch you, because the case is closed legally.

Now, you do not care very much for the opinion of others, while from every other standpoint you feel perfectly safe.

But I 've had to suffer for your crime, Murphy, suffer for fifteen years, ten of them behind stone walls; and there are others who have suffered with me.

It has cost me love, home, all that a man holds dear.