But these fellers couldn't fool me, an' they didn't try very hard.

I asked them, straight out like a man, why they left you like thet.

I didn't forget to mention how you nursed Blake's poor old mother when she was sick, an' how good you was to Dorn's kids.

They looked ashamed, Miss Withersteen.

An' they jest froze up--thet dark set look thet makes them strange an' different to me.