And Thomas seems to like him well enough.

Thomas," she reminded Good Indian unnecessarily, "never does say much about anything." "I'd like to get a chance to talk to him," Good Indian observed.
"I'll have to just lead him off somewhere by main strength, I guess.
Baumberger sticks to him like a bur to a dog's tail.

What are those fellows doing down there now?
Does anybody know ?" "You heard what he said to me just now," Phoebe said, impatiently.

"He don't want anybody to go near.

It's terribly aggravating," she confessed dispiritedly, "to have a lot of ruffians camped down, cool as you please, on your own ranch, and not be allowed to drive 'em off.