'
'Are you in earnest, Rube?' said I.
'Never more so,' said he. 'All we've got to do is to get away, and
then tramp it.'
'How do you mean to get away, Rube?'
'Easy enough,' Rube said carelessly. 'Get our hands loose first,
then our legs, then kill them fellows and make tracks.'
Now it ain't very often that I larf out. I don't suppose I've
larfed right out three times since I was a boy; but Rube's coolness
tickled me so that I larfed out like a hyena. When I began, Rube he
began; and when he larfed it was tremendous. I don't think Rube
knew what I war larfin' at; but he told me afterward he larfed to
see me larf, which, in all the time we had been together, he hadn't
seen. What made us larf worse was that the Mexicans were so
startled that they seized their rifles and rushed to the doorway,
and stood looking at us as if we were wild beasts. Keeping the guns
pointed at us, they walked round very carefully, and felt our cords
to see that they were all right; and finding they were, went back
into the next room, savage and rather scared. Our larfing made them
terribly uneasy, I could see; and they had an idea we couldn't have
larfed like that if we hadn't some idea of getting away. When we
had done I said:
'Now, Rube, tell me what you have planned out, that is, if you're
downright in arnest.
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