He rid on the same seat with that gal all day till now.

Lord knows what he done or said.

Ain't hit nigh about time now, Major ?" "It's nigh about time," said Will Banion quietly.
They rode side by side, past more than a mile of the covered wagons, now almost end to end, the columns continually closing up.

At the bank of the river, at the ferry head, they found a group of fifty men.

The ranks opened as Banion and Jackson approached, but Banion made no attempt to join a council to which he had not been bidden.
A half dozen civilized Indians of the Kaws, owners or operators of the ferry, sat in a stolid line across the head of the scow at its landing stage, looking neither to the right nor the left and awaiting the white men's pleasure.