Read it through once

“Because it ain’t in the books so—that’s why. Now, Ben Rogers, do you want to do things regular, or don’t you?—that’s the idea. Don’t you reckon that the people that made the books knows what’s the correct thing to do? Do you reckon _you_ can learn ’em anything? Not by a good deal. No, sir, we’ll just go on and ransom them in the regular way.”