"Really? Well, that explains the accent. 'Least neither of us are likely to set a car on fire out here." Very faint, but there to ears that were tuned to that kind of stuff. It also made him fractionally more comfortable - the south being what it was, it was a flavor that people not familiar tended to make a lot of assumptions about.

"You mind if I ask you about that? I've already chewed Doc's ear off but call me a sucker, I like knowin' both sides of a story. He didn't mention what kinda museum it was, come to think of it."