I've long suspected thet somebody livin' right heah in the valley has been drivin' off cattle an' dealin' with rustlers.
An' now I'm shore of it." This speech did not elicit the amaze from Gaston Isbel that Jean expected it would.
"You mean Greaves or some of his friends ?" "No.

They wasn't none of them in the cattle business, like we are.
Shore we all knowed Greaves was crooked.

But what I'm figgerin' is thet some so-called honest man in our settlement has been makin' crooked deals." Blue was a man of deeds rather than words, and so much strong speech from him, whom everybody knew to be remarkably reliable and keen, made a profound impression upon most of the Isbel faction.

But, to Jean's surprise, his father did not rave.

It was Blaisdell who supplied the rage and invective.