You went to bed before I did--we couldn't see the cards--" He stopped confusedly, and again he gave the two women the impression that he blushed.

"We weren't playing for money," he hurriedly explained.
"Just for pastime.

It's--pretty lonesome--sometimes." "Somebody did something to somebody last night," Andy informed Pink with a resentful impatience.

"Miss Hallman thinks we're the guilty parties--me in particular, because she don't like me.

It's something about some shacks--damaging property, she called it.