He's got a rep as a fighter, an' when he just stood back 'an' let Butch have his way, everybody knew he wasn't scared, or backin' down, or anything.

He didn't care a rap for Lily Sanderson, that was all, an' anybody could see she was just crazy after him." The telling of this episode caused Saxon no little worry.

Hers was the average woman's pride, but in the matter of man-conquering prowess she was not unduly conceited.

Billy had enjoyed her dancing, and she wondered if that were all.

If Charley Long bullied up to him would he let her go as he had let Lily Sanderson go?
He was not a marrying man; nor could Saxon blind her eyes to the fact that he was eminently marriageable.