"I got some tinkerin' to do on the Ford, an' I was aimin' to lay over here an' do it.

I'm kinda lookin' around, myself, for a likely prospect; I got all the time there is.

I guess I'll back the car down the draw a piece where she'll set level, an' clean up 'er dingbats whilst you take a sleep." Casey left the breakfast things where they were, as a silent reassurance to Mack Nolan that the car would not go off without him.

It was a fine, psychological detail of which Casey was secretly rather proud.

A box of grub, a smoked coffee pot and dirty breakfast dishes left beside a dead campfire establishes evidence, admissible before any jury, that the owner means to return.
Casey went over and cranked the Ford, grimly determined to make the coffee pot lie for him if necessary.