Ye've trampled on a good wheen toes since you came to these parts.

But they're all men to ride the ford with, if that should come which we ken of." Some of the men on the list were poor settlers, and it was our business to equip them with horse and gun.

That was to be my special duty--that and the establishing of means by which they could be summoned quickly.
With the first Mercer could help me, for he had his hand on all the lines of the smuggling business, and there were a dozen ports on the coast where he could land arms.

Horses were an easy matter, requiring only the doling out of money.

But the summoning business was to be my particular care.