'Fer if y'u hedn't give y'urself away y'u could hev been easy enough.' "Thar was no mistakin' Bruce's meanin' an' when he got it out some of the men thar laughed.

Isbel kept lookin' from one to another of them.
Then facin' Greaves, he said, deliberately: 'Greaves, this drunken Bruce is excuse enough fer a show-down.

I take it that you are sheepmen, an' you're goin' on Jorth's side of the fence in the matter of this sheep rangin'.' "'Wal, Nez Perce, I reckon you hit plumb center,' said Greaves, dryly.
He spread wide his big hands to the other men, as if to say they'd might as well own the jig was up.
"'All right.

You're Jorth's backers.

Have any of you a word to say in Ellen Jorth's defense?
I tell you the Mexican lied.