Kind o' hangs around.

What's he up to ?" Keith laughed.
"Well, it's pretty hard to tell what Wickersham is up to,--at least, by what he says,--especially when you don't tell me what he is doing." The old man looked pleased.

Keith had let him believe that he did not know what he was talking of, and had expressed an opinion in which he agreed.
"That's what I think.

Well, it's about my land up here." Keith looked relived.
"Has he made you another offer for it ?" "No; he ain't done that, and he won't do it.

That's what I tells him.