He was able to continue the conversation with Rawlins more coolly.
"Then you suspect who is the leader ?" "Only on giniral principles.

There was a finer touch, so to speak, in this yer robbery that wasn't in the old-fashioned style.

Down in my country they hed crude ideas about them things--used to strip the passengers of everything, includin' their clothes.

They say that at the station hotels, when the coach came in, the folks used to stand round with blankets to wrap up the passengers so ez not to skeer the wimen.
Thar's a story that the driver and express manager drove up one day with only a copy of the Alty Californy wrapped around 'em; but thin," added Rawlins grimly, "there WAS folks ez said the hull story was only an advertisement got up for the Alty." "Time's up." "Are you ready, gentlemen ?" said Colonel Clinch.
Hale started.

He had forgotten his wife and family at Eagle's Court, ten miles away.