Dusty, and quivering with fatigue, Mose walked across the track and took up his coat.
"You earned your money, Mose," said Grassi, as he handed out the roll of bills.
"I'll think so to-morrow morning, I reckon," replied Mose, and his walk showed dizziness and weakness.
"You've had the easy end of it," said Dan.

"You should have took him when I did, when he was fresh." "You didn't stay on him long enough to weaken him any," said Mose in offensive reply, and Dan did not care to push the controversy any further.
"That spoils my shooting now," Mose said to Haney.

"I couldn't hit the side of a mule." "Oh, you'll stiddy up after dinner." "Good boy!" called the crisp voice of Mrs.Raimon.

"Come here, I want to talk with you." He could not decently refuse to go to the side of her carriage.

She had with her a plain woman, slightly younger than herself, who passed for her niece.