Oh, it's the strangest story you ever heard.
I must tell you.

But you'll never believe." "Venters, women were always puzzles to me.

But for all that, if this girl ain't a child, an' as innocent, I'm no fit person to think of virtue an' goodness in anybody.

Are you goin' to be square with her ?" "I am--so help me God!" "I reckoned so.

Mebbe my temper oughtn't led me to make sure.