''Lo, Wixon, that you ?' "'Um-hm,' begins Jonadab.

'How's that crowbait of yours to-day, Tobe?
Got any go in him?
'Cause if he has, I--' "He stopped short.

The woman in Loveland's carriage had turned her head and was starin' hard.
"'Why!' she gasps.

'I do believe--Why, Jonadab!' "'HETTIE!' says the Cap'n.
"Well, after that 'twas pull up, of course, and shake hands and talk.
The widow, she done most of the talkin'.

She was SO glad to see him.