This half-breed business is making them all restless and a good deal too impertinent." "There's not any real danger, is there ?" inquired his wife.

"The Police can handle them quite well, can't they ?" "If you were a silly hysterical girl, Mandy, I would say 'no danger' of course.

But the signs are ominous.

I don't fear anything immediately, but any moment a change may come and then we shall need to act quickly." "What then ?" "We shall ride to the Fort, I can tell you, without waiting to take our stuff with us.

I take no chances now." "Now?
Meaning ?" "Meaning my wife, that's all.