Cash seldom mentioned women at all, and when he did it was in a purely general way, as women touched some other subject he was discussing.

He never paid any attention to the children they met casually in their travels.

He seemed absolutely self-sufficient, interested only in the prospect of finding a paying claim.

What he would do with wealth, if so be he attained it, he never seemed to know or care.

He never asked Bud any questions about his private affairs, never seemed to care how Bud had lived, or where.