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snorted Pete . `` What does that buy us ? '' `` It buys you six hours ' time for a get-away . I 've got no business to do it , but I 'll promise to loaf around an ' not report to Captain Ellison till after noon . I 'll go that far . '' `` I don ' know 's we want to make any get-away . We could hold the fort right here against quite a few Rangers , I reckon . ''