She hurried out, and in her surprise to see him armed with rifle and revolver, she forgot her intention to inquire about his wound.
"Judkins! Those guns?
You never carried guns." "It's high time, Miss Withersteen," he replied.

"Will you come into the grove?
It ain't jest exactly safe for me to be seen here." She walked with him into the shade of the cottonwoods.
"What do you mean ?" "Miss Withersteen, I went to my mother's house last night.

While there, some one knocked, an' a man asked for me.

I went to the door.

He wore a mask.