Please, in future, take your orders from me." "Then I'm to go to Linrock with you ?" I asked.
"Assuredly.

Ride with Sally and me to-day, please." She turned away with Sally, and they walked toward the first buckboard.
Colonel Sampson found a grim enjoyment in Wright's discomfiture.
"Diane's like her mother was, George," he said.

"You've made a bad start with her." Here Wright showed manifestation of the Sampson temper, and I took him to be a dangerous man, with unbridled passions.
"Russ, here's my own talk to you," he said, hard and dark, leaning toward me.

"Don't go to Linrock." "Say, Mr.Wright," I blustered for all the world like a young and frightened cowboy, "If you threaten me I'll have you put in jail!" Both men seemed to have received a slight shock.

Wright hardly knew what to make of my boyish speech.