Why, Ware, I've been counting on it, that when you saw we were in a hole and going to lose, you'd come down from your high horse and help me out.

I tell you, there's no doubt about it; that woman's the woman I'm looking for! I guessed it the night you told that story up there in the house-boat." "Quit this business, Ed," the minister was saying; "I'm an old friend of yours.

But I won't budge an inch.

I'd never breathed a word of that story before and I shouldn't have told it that night.

It was so far back that I thought it was safe.