Plainly, he was much too hungry to do any more trailing.

Besides, for more than an hour he had been thinking of the warm wood fire at home.

Bill Rubley was putting the "gad" to the horses when a man on horseback rode up from the opposite end of the bridge.

He had come far and in a hurry, and he recognised Anderson Crow.
"Say, Anderson!" he called, "somebody broke into Colonel Randall's summer home last night an' they're there yet.

Got fires goin' in all the stoves, an' havin' a high old time.