9/24 He won't think any good of you if you keep travellin' 'lone with him. It's all well 'nough when you get lost, an' he was nice to help you out and save you from snakes; but he knows he ain't no business travellin' 'lone with you, you pretty little creature!" "You must not talk so!" said the girl, rising and flashing her eyes again. He's what my brother called 'a white man all through.' Besides, he's got a lady, a beautiful lady, in the East. She rides in some kind of a grand carriage that goes of itself, and he thinks a great deal of her." The woman looked as if she were but half convinced. You'd find his fine lady wouldn't go jantin' round the world 'lone with him unless she's married. |