"You don't suppose they would be such fools as that and, if they had, you don't suppose as I should be such a fool to split on 'em.

Not likely.

I ain't no desire to wake up, one night, and find the door fastened outside and the thatch on fire." "We may as well ride on," Reuben said.

"We shall learn nothing here.

The fellow is a ticket-of-leave man, and as likely as not in league with these scoundrels.
"I wonder what they came here for," he added, as they started again.
"I tell you, sah," Jim said.