He stood in the doorway until she was out of sight and remained there for nearly an hour awaiting her return.

The men of Tinkletown took but one look at the pretty young woman, but that one look was continuous and unbroken.
"If this jay town can turn up enough money to-night to keep us from stranding, I'll take off my hat to it for ever more," said Jackie Blake.
"Boothby says the house is sold out," said Miss Marmaduke, a shade of anxiety in her dark eyes.

"Oh, how I wish we were at home again." "I'd rather starve in New York than feast in the high hills," said he wistfully.

The idols to whom Tinkletown was paying homage were but human, after all.

For two months the Boothby Company had been buffeted from pillar to post, struggling hard to keep its head above water, always expecting the crash.