They're hypocrites.
What I'm trying to find out, Mason said, is how Oxman is going to get the money to take up those IOU's.
Don't worry, he'll raise that all right.
How?
There's a ring that will put up money for things like that, she said! He fell in a heap, lay there twitching long enough for One-Eye to start nagging Loftus about hitting him with a barrage of regular shafts, then he scuttled off like a crab to escape the stallion's pounding hooves!