I'm a terrible wise man, but bein' so wise I don't tell all I know or how I happen to know it.

Hop up, sonny." "Don't you think I'll be a lot of trouble to you," said Dick, "riding behind you thirty or forty miles to your camp ?" The four men exchanged glances, and no one answered.

The boy felt a sudden chill, and his hair prickled at the roots.

He did not know what had caused it, but surely it was a sign of some danger.
The night deepened steadily as they were talking.

The twilight had gone long since.