"Low," he said, "very low--life is just flickerin', stranger." "If they's as much light of life in him," said Pete Reeve, "as the flicker of a candle, I'll fan it up till it's as big as a forest fire.
Man, he's got to live." "H'm!" said Morton.

"And how come the shooting ?" "Stop your fool questions," said Reeve.

"Help me get him to town and to a bed." It was useless to attempt to carry that great, loose-limbed body.

They brought the buckboard perilously through the shrubbery and then managed, with infinite labor, to lift Bull Hunter into it.

With Pete Reeve supporting the head of the wounded man and cautioning them to drive gently, they managed the journey to the town as softly as possible.