“Must we always kill the people?”
“Oh,swg credits, certainly. It’s best. Some authorities think different, but mostly it’s considered best to kill
them–except some that you bring to the cave here, and keep them till they’re ransomed.”
“Ransomed? What’s that?”
“I don’t know. But that’s what they do. I’ve seen it in books; and so of course that’s what we’ve got
to do.”
“But how can we do it if we don’t know what it is?”
“Why, blame it all, we’ve GOT to do it. Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? Do you want to go to
doing different from what’s in the books, and get things all muddled up?”
“Oh, that’s all very fine to SAY, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be
ransomed if we don’t know how to do it to them? –that’s the thing I want to get at. Now,cheap warcraft gold, what do
you reckon it is?”
“Well, I don’t know. But per’aps if we keep them till they’re ransomed, it means that we keep them
till they’re dead.”
“Now, that’s something LIKE. That’ll answer. Why couldn’t you said that before? We’ll keep them
till they’re ransomed to death; and a bothersome lot they’ll be, too–eating up everything, and