Meanwhile my debt to you, already great, is accumulating." The Panther laughed.
"You don't owe us nothin'," he said.

"Why, on this frontier it's one man's business to help another out of a scrape.

If we didn't do that we couldn't live." "Nevertheless, I shall try to pay it," said Roylston, in significant tones.
"For the moment we'll think of that hut we're lookin' for," said the Panther.
"It will be more than a hut," said Will, who was of a singularly cheerful nature.

"I can see it now.

It will be a gorgeous palace.