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'Well, you ARE a juggins!' exclaimed Huish. 'What did you want? You
wanted to kill him, and tried to last night. You wanted to kill the 'ole
lot of them and tried to, and 'ere I show you 'ow; and because there's
some medicine in a bottle you kick up this fuss!'
'I suppose that's so,' said Davis. 'It don't seem someways reasonable,
only there it is.'
'
It's the happlication of science, I suppose?' sneered Huish.
I don't know what it is,' cried Davis, pacing the floor; 'it's there!
'
I draw the line at it. I can't put a finger to no such piggishness. It's
too damned hateful!'
'And I suppose it's all your fancy pynted it,' said Huish, 'w'en you
take a pistol and a bit o' lead, and copse a man's brains all over him?
No accountin' for tystes.'
'I'm not denying it,' said Davis, 'It's something here, inside of me.
It's foolishness; I dare say it's dam foolishness. I don't argue, I just
draw the line. Isn't there no other way?'
'Look for yourself,' said Huish. 'I ain't wedded to this, if you think I
am; I ain't ambitious; I don't make a point of playin' the lead; I offer
to, that's all, and if you can't show me better, by Gawd, I'm goin' to!'
'Then the risk!' cried Davis.
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