"If you hadn't spoke up then, I reckon you wouldn't have been in on this deal.

An' so she told you she'd studied her dictionary! Now, I'd call that news.

Some one'd been tellin' me that she'd asked you the meanin' of the word 'evaporate.' An' when you couldn't tell her she told you to do it.

Said that when you got home you might look up a dictionary an' then you'd know what she meant.
"An' now Leviatt's hangin' around over there," continued the youth.
"He's claimin' to be goin' to see Ben Radford, but I reckon he's got the same kind of sickness as the rest of us." "An' you ain't sayin' a word about what she said to you," observed Miller.

"She must have treated you awful gentle, seein' you won't tell." "Well," returned the young man, "I ain't layin' it all out to you.