They made it so unpleasant that he quit the service--crowded him out, that's all.

He was a born soldier, too, and didn't know nothing else nor care for nothing else; as fine a man as I ever served under, but it soured him so that a rattlesnake couldn't have lived with him.

He tried to go into some kind of business after he quit the army, but he wasn't cut out for it, and never made good as long as I knew of him.

The last time I seen him was down on the border, and he had sure grown cultus.

He had quit the squaw, who was livin' with a greaser in Tucson--" "And do you think I'm like that woman ?" said Necia, in a queer, strained voice.