I've just been cooking out in the open air when I couldn't stand your cooking here no more--out of doors, like I was camping out." "If any sheep herder was ever worse than you two, God help him! You wasn't one of you fit for her to wipe a foot on,--that doctor least of all, that got me out here under pretences that she was married happy.
And I find her married to that! I wish to God she could see all this, and see you all, for just one minute.

Just once, that's all!" "Yes," said Wid Gardner, suddenly serious.

"I know.

There ain't nothing I can do to square it.

But all I've got or expect to have--why, it's free for you to take along and do anything you can for her and your own self, Miss Annie, if you want to, even if you do go away and leave us.
"But look at my land over there." He swept a long arm toward the waving grasses of the valley.