Boone, this fellow Pierre has to leave the country.

Will you see that he goes ?" The lips of Boone moved and made no sound.
He said at length: "McGurk, I'd rather cross the devil than cross you.
There's no shame in admitting that.

But I've lost my boy, Hal." "Too bad, Jim.

I knew Hal; at a distance, of course." "And Pierre is filling Hal's place in the family." "Is that your answer ?" "McGurk, are you going to pin me down in this ?" And here Jack whirled and cried: "Dad, you won't let Pierre go!" "You see ?" pleaded Boone.
It was uncanny and horrible to see the giant so unnerved before this stranger, but that part of it did not come to Pierre until later.

Now he felt a peculiar emptiness of stomach and a certain jumping chill that traveled up and down his spine.