Ellsworth looked at him intently.

"We'll be here for a day or so," said he, "and meantime, it will seem a little strange for my daughter, I suppose--" "You don't need to tell me about anything," said Dan Anderson.

"Of course, her coming is a little inopportune.

You see, Mr.Ellsworth, the morning stars are inopportune, and the sunrise every day, and the dew of heaven." Ellsworth looked at him half in terror, and in his discomfort murmured something about going to look up his daughter.
"Now, that's mighty kind of you," said Dan Anderson.

"But I know the way over there alone, and after I have taken you back to Uncle Jim's, I am going over there--alone.