"Now let me go, so's you'll be alone." "You stay right there," ordered Moore.
"Why, Ben, I'm ashamed to say that I actually forgot you were here," said Columbine.
"Then I'll remind you," rejoined the hunter.

"Collie, tell us about Old Bill an' Jack." "Tell you?
What ?" "Well, I've seen changes in both.

So has Wils, though Wils hasn't seen as much as he's heard from Lem an' Montana an' the Andrews boys." "Oh!..." Columbine choked a little over her exclamation of understanding.

"Dad has gotten a new lease on life, I guess.

He's happy, like a boy sometimes, an' good as gold....