It was love at first sight with me.

I give Miss Seliny warning soon as your folks come in and I got a good look at the lady." As the buckboard drove away, Miss Sherwood, who had been gazing steadfastly at the two figures still standing in the street, the tall ungainly old one, and the taller, loosely-held young one (he had not turned to look at her) withdrew her eyes from them, bent them seriously upon Fisbee, and asked: "What did you mean when you said no one was with him to-night ?" "That no one was watching him," he answered.
"Watching him?
I don't understand." "Yes; he has been shot at from the woods at night and----" The girl shivered.

"But who watches him ?" "The young men of the town.

He has a habit of taking long walks after dark, and he is heedless of all remonstrance.

He laughs at the idea of curtailing the limit of his strolls or keeping within the town when night has fallen; so the young men have organized a guard for him, and every evening one of them follows him until he goes to the office to work for the night.