Go on now, and behave yourself," he added, giving Wash a playful push.
"What can I do for you, folks ?" "I suppose you know this country well ?" questioned Grace.
Long shrugged his shoulders.
"Sometimes I think I do, then I discover that I don't," he replied soberly.

"No one knows it.

I know the people, on the surface, and know my way around." "Perhaps you know something about the moonshiners and the feudists ?" suggested Nora.
Jeremiah Long gave her a quick glance of inquiry.
"Take a word of advice from the Mystery Man.

The less you know about anything up here in these hills the better off you are in the end.

Some folks have made the mistake of knowing too much for their own good, and some of them are here yet, but they ain't saying anything." Grace thanked him and agreed that his advice was good, at the same time speculating in her own mind over their guest.