"If any one else comes snooping around here I'll just blow them up to start with.

I haven't time to talk.

Suppose that had been yellow! I'd have killed that man, sure! The Limberlost isn't safe to-night, and the sooner those whelps find it out, the better it will be for them." Pete stopped laughing to look at her.

He saw that she was speaking the truth.

She was quite past reason, sense, or fear.