As you saw at my house, I'm interested in getting hold of books relating to the achievements of the Western pioneers.

Some of these bald, unvarnished tales give a capital idea of the men who conquered the wilderness.

They had the real stuff in them, those fellows!" He took the battered volume--a pamphlet clumsily encased in boards, and drew his hand across its rough sides caressingly.
"Another of my jokes on the State Library.

The librarian told me I'd never find a copy, and this was on top of a pile of trash in a second-hand shop right here in this town.

It cost me just fifty cents." He snapped his bag shut on the new-found treasure and bade Dan good-bye without referring again to the proposed employment.
Dan knew, as he left the hotel, that if an answer had been imperatively demanded on the spot, he should have accepted Bassett's proposition; but as he walked slowly away questions rose in his mind.