Two officials' wives, an' Pioneer Jane French.

Heard o' her?
Walked from South Africa, Jane did--hoofed it along o' French, bossed his boys, drove the cattle, shot the meat, ran the whole shootin' match, an' runs him, too, when he's sober an' she's drunk.

When they're both drunk everybody ducks.

She's scarcely a woman, she's sort of three-men-rolled-into-one.

Give her a horsewhip ae she'll manage the unruliest crowd o' savages ever you or she set eyes on! Countin' her as one, an' the two officials wives, an' her on this train, there's four!" Our eyes met.