All my life, he said, I have been witness to people shown up where they are supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didn't have a reason for it. Yessir. But there ain't but one reason. Yessir. You know what it is? No sir. It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.

The Crossing