"Fill up your pipe." Strange obeyed.

"We're supposed to be red-hot rivals in business," he said with an agreeable laugh.

"But that needn't prevent, eh?
Funny I should stumble on you like this! I ride every night after supper--a man needs a bit of exercise after working all day in the store.

I saw the light of your fire." He was too anxious to have it understood that the meeting was accidental.

Ambrose began to suspect that he had ridden out on purpose to see him.
The better men among the natives, such as Tole Grampierre, have a pride of their own; but they never presume to the same footing as the white men.