They'll be here any time now, and it'll be a good bit yet before Sammy can get home." He began fastening the front door.
The peaceful minded scholar could not grasp the meaning of the message; it was to him an impossible thought; "You must be mistaken, Grant," he said.

"Surely you are excited and unduly alarmed.

Wash Gibbs has no reason to attack me." Young Matt replied gruffly, "I ain't makin' no mistake in the woods, Dad.

You ain't in the city now, and there ain't no one can hear you holler.

Don't think I am scared neither, if that's what you mean.