I didn't think of that; I thought I was savin' Dan from another--well, what a damn fool I been!" He unknotted his bandana and with it mopped his face to a semblance of cleanliness.
"It was the ridin' that done it," he explained, shame-faced.

"You put a man on a hoss for a certain time, and after a while he gets so he can't think.

He's sort of nutty.

That was the way with me when I come in." "Open the window on the veranda," said Joe Cumberland.

"I want to feel the wind." The doctor obeyed the instruction, and again he noted that same quiet, contented smile on the lips of the old man.