It more'n pays me--it more'n pays him--" and he nodded again toward Dan Anderson, "for our trip down here.

We wasn't expectin' to meet you." "How did you happen to come ?" asked Constance, feeling as she did so that she was guilty of treachery.
Tom Osby again looked her straight in the face.

"Just because we was naturally so blamed lonesome," said he.

"That is to say, I was.

I allowed I wanted to hear a woman sing.