We have all to be careful not to offend him, even in trifles, or he would make life very unpleasant for us, and I fear he has something very unpleasant in store for you.

You may depend upon it that he is meditating some trick.

He is quite capable of letting you go as far as the bridge, and then bringing you back and hanging you or fastening you to the tail of a wild mustang or the horns of a wild bull.

That also would be letting you go." "So it would, in a fashion! and I should prefer it to being hanged." "I don't think I would.

The hanging would be sooner over and far less painful.