I thought of him the minute I seen you.
And he told me that he had a sweetheart back home and that she was coming out to him.

I wasn't more'n half pleased, ornery young lump of selfishness that I was; I thought he wouldn't be as much my friend after she came.

But I'd enough decency not to let him see it.

He told me all about her.

Her name was Persis Leigh, and she would have come out with him if it hadn't been for her old uncle.