"What do you think I'd better do with him?"

"Oh, kill him," replied Harry carelessly. "He's broad between the eyes
and there's plenty of room there for a bullet. You couldn't miss at two
yards."

The German made a dive toward his musket, but Dalton cried sharply:

"Hands up or I shoot!"

The German straightened himself and, holding his hands aloft, said:

"You would not kill me in the shelter uf mein own house?"

"Well, that depends on the amount of English you know. It seems to me,
Herr Schneider, that you learned our language very suddenly."

"I vas a man who learns very fast when it vas necessary. Mein brain
vorks in a manner most vonderful ven I looks down the barrel of a big
pistol."

"This pistol is a marvelous stimulant to a good education."

"How did you know mein name vas Schneider?"

"Intuition, Herr Schneider! Intuition! We Southern people have
wonderful intuitive faculties."

"Vell, it vas not Schneider. My name vas Jacob Onderdonk."