“I don’t know.”
“Well, guess.”
“I don’t know. A month and a half.”
“Thirty-seven year — and he come out in China.
That’s the kind. I wish the bottom of this fortress was solid rock.”
“Jim don’t know nobody in China.”
“What’s that got to do with it? Neither did that other fellow. But you’re always a-wandering off on a side issue. Why can’t you stick to the main point?”
“All right — I don’t care where he comes out, so he comes out; and Jim don’t, either, I reckon. But there’s one thing, anyway — Jim’s too old to be dug out with a case-knife. He won’t last.”