But you look after things--what's your name?
Vjolmar--how yuh spell it?
I'll swear you in as a deputy.

Good Lord, you're a husky son-of-a-gun!" The sheriff's eyes went up to Swan's hat crown, descended to his shoulders and lingered there admiringly for a moment, traveled down his flat, hard-muscled body and his straight legs.

"I'll bet you could put up some fight, if you had to," he commented.
Swan grinned good-humoredly, glanced conscience-stricken at the covered figure on the ground and straightened his face decorously.
"I could lick you good," he admitted in a stage whisper.

"I'm a son-off-a-gun all right--only I don't never get mad at somebody." Brit Hunter smiled at that, it was so like Swan Vjolmar.

But when they were halfway to Thurman's ranch--Brit on horseback and Swan striding easily along beside him, leading the blaze-faced horse, he glanced down at Swan's face and wondered if Swan had not lied a little.
"What's on your mind, Swan ?" he asked abruptly.
Swan started and looked up at him, glanced at the empty hills on either side, and stopped still in the trail.
"Mr.Hunter, you been longer in the country than I have been.