In fact, most of the young men of the district were afraid of the red-faced, bold-eyed strangers, one of the few exceptions being Milton, and another Shephard Watson, his friend and room-mate at the Rock River Seminary.

Neither of these boys being at all athletic, it was rather curious that Bill and Joe Yohe should treat them with so much consideration.
Bill was standing before the huge cannon stove, talking with Bettie, when Milton and Shephard returned to the school-house.

The man's hard, black eyes were filled with a baleful fire, and his wolfish teeth shone through his long red mustache.

It made Milton mutter under his breath to see how innocently Bettie laughed with him.

She never dreamed and could not have comprehended the vileness of the man's whole life and thought.