Pop Bridgers saw him and came bow-legging eagerly forward with gossip titillating on his meddlesome tongue, but Lone stalked by him with only a surly nod.

Bob Warfield he saw at a distance and gave no sign of recognition.

He met Hawkins coming down from his house and stopped in the trail.
"Have you got time to go back to the office and fix up my time, Hawkins ?" he asked without prelude.

"I'm quitting to-day." Hawkins stared and named the Biblical place of torment.

"What yuh quittin' for, Lone ?" he added incredulously.