“You’re tired, Pop, an’ I’m gonna take you back to the _Minnie M. Baxter_. Then I’m gonna turn this kicker straight back and head her downstream again an’ I’m goin’ aboard that _Apollyon_ an’ explain the whole thing. I’ll tell ’em everythin’ like you told me an’ I bet they’ll believe it all right ’cause they’ll see that my Pop couldn’t kill anybody.”