"When you're married to me, you'll come mighty close to keeping your mouth shut about it." "I'll never marry you! You--you fiend! Do you think I'd marry a cold-blooded murderer like you ?" Al turned in the saddle and looked at her intently.

"If I'm all that," he told her coolly, "you can figure out about what'll happen to you if you _don't_ marry me.

If you saw what I done to Fred Thurman, what do you reckon I'd do to _you_ ?" He looked at her for a minute, shrugged his shoulders and rode on, crossing the creek and taking a trail which Lorraine did not know.

Much of the time they traveled in the water, though it slowed their pace.

Where the trail was rocky, they took it and made better time.
Snake lagged a little on the upgrades, but he was well trained to lead and gave little trouble.