It felt familiar--it might be Sim Gage's gun, taken from her at the house.

She waited.
"Well, that's too bad you can't see," said Aleck.

"You can't see what a fine feller I'd make for you! I'm chief.

I'm a big man." "You're a big coward," said Mary Warren calmly.

"What's a blind woman to you?
Why don't you let me go ?" "Well, even a blind woman can tell what she's heard," said he thoughtfully.