I haven't much to say--" The Squire stopped.

Jake Noyes was coming from the barn, swinging a lantern; he waited until he had led the horse away, then continued.

"It is just as well to have no witnesses," he said, laughing.

"It is about that affair of the Edwards mortgage." "Ah!" said the doctor, with a fencing wariness of intonation.
"I would like to inquire what you're going to do about it, if you have no objection.

I have reasons." The doctor gave a keen look at him.