I've got as many friends in Pine--an' all the way down the trail--as Auchincloss has....

An' Snake, see here--" He paused to draw a deep breath and his big hands trembled over the blaze.

Anson leaned forward, like a serpent ready to strike, and Jim Wilson was as tense with his divination of the plot at hand.
"See here," panted Beasley.

"The girl's due to arrive at Magdalena on the sixteenth.

That's a week from to-morrow.