Oh, yes, it's very pretty as it is, but the greatest thing in this world is man, and it was made as it is for him to master." "You have curious notions for a Canadian bush rancher," said Seaforth.
"You are, however, really an Englishman, aren't you ?" "No," said Alton grimly.

"My father used to be, but he was too much of my way of thinking and they fired him out of the country.

It's a thing I don't like to talk of, Charley, and just now I'm a low-down packer hauling in a pile of truck I'll never get paid for.

Steady, come up.
There's nothing going to hurt you, Julius Caesar." The snarling and spitting of a panther came out of the darkness, and it was only by main force Alton dragged the Cayuse past.

Then he laughed a little.