The quite impossible, the recalcitrant, the timid, and the bold.

For the impossible he did not waste powder and shot.

For the recalcitrant he used insidious methods of tickling their fancies, as he would tickle a trout.

For the timid he was tender and protective; and for the bold subtly indifferent: but always gentle and nice! He was not sure yet in which of the four divisions he should have to place his new attraction--probably the second--but he frankly admitted he had never before had any experience with one of her type.

Her strange eyes thrilled him: he felt, when she turned the deep slate, melting disks upon him, his heart went "down into his bloomin' boots," as Jimmy Danvers would have described the sensation.