In truth, no one could safely have identified him as a human being.
"I'm goin' after them raskils," he announced to Andrew Gregory and the whole family, as he came down late to take his place at the head of the supper table.
"Ain't you goin' to let 'em show here, pop ?" asked Roscoe in distress.
"Show here?
What air you talkin' about ?" "He means the train robbers, Roscoe," explained the lad's mother.

The boy breathed again.
"They are a dangerous lot," volunteered Gregory, who had been in Albany for two days.

"The papers are full of their deeds.

Cutthroats of the worst character." "I'd let them alone, Anderson," pleaded his wife.

"If you corner them, they'll shoot, and it would be jest like you to follow them right into their lair." "Consarn it, Eva, don't you s'pose that I c'n shoot, too ?" snorted Anderson.