Did you ?" "I think I heard something of that kind at Skinner's, but it may have been only a warning to me, traveling alone." "Thet's so," said Collinson, with a tender solicitude, "but none o' these yer road-agents would have teched a woman.

And this yer Chivers ain't the man to insult one, either." "No," she said, with a return of her hysteric laugh.

But it was overlooked by Collinson, who was taking his gun from beside the tree where he had placed it, "Where are you going ?" she said suddenly.
"I reckon them fellers ought to be warned o' what you heard.

I'll be back in a minit." "And you're going to leave me now--when--when we've only just met after these years," she said, with a faint attempt at a smile, which, however, did not reach the cold glitter of her eyes.
"Just for a little, honey.

Besides, don't you see, I've got to get excused; for we'll have to go off to Skinner's or somewhere, Sadie, for we can't stay in thar along o' them." "So you and your wife are turned out of your home to please Chivers," she said, still smiling.
"That's whar you slip up, Sadie," said Collinson, with a troubled face; "for he's that kind of a man thet if I jest as much as hinted you was here, he'd turn 'em all out o' the house for a lady.