"I'll grant all that." "But what gets me" Will interrupted, "is that they should condemn us out-of-hand--on sight--untried--on the say-so of this Lady Saffren Waldon.

She carries German letters of credit.

She's so notoriously in league with Germans that you'd think even these little Napoleons 'ud know it.

I'm American myself, thank God, but these two men are their own kith and kin.

Why should they judge their own countrymen unheard on the say-so of a woman like that?
That's what rattles me!" Courtney blew six smoke rings.
"You'll have to forgive them, lad.