It takes more than that to put my back up.

But forty years agone I do believe I must 'a heaved you out o' window." "Why, Colonel, why?
Now be reasonable.

Not a word have I said reflecting either upon you or your country; and a finer offer than I have made can not come to many of you, even in this land of gold.

Ten thousand dollars I offer, and I will exceed my instructions and say fifteen, all paid on the nail by an order on Frisco, about which you may assure yourself.

And what do I ask in return?
Legal proof of the death of a man whom we know to be dead, and the custody of his child, for her own good." "Squire, I have no other answer to make.