Then he laid the hand back on the sheet and grinned more confidently at Bull.
"Well, I'll be hanged, Bull, here you are as big as life, pretty near, and you don't act like you knew me!" "Sure I do.

Sit down, Harry.

What brung you all this ways ?" "Why, anxious to see how you was doing." Again Bull blinked.

Such anxiety from Harry was a mystery.
"They ain't talking about much else up our way," said Harry, "but how you come across the mountains in the storm, and how big you are, and how you got the sheriff, and how you rushed Pete Reeve bare-handed.
Sure is some story! All the way down I just had to say that I was Bull Hunter's cousin to get free meals!" He licked his lips and grinned again.

"So I come down to see how you was." "I'm doing tolerable fair," said Bull slowly, "and it was good of you to come this long ways to ask that question.