"I hear the old gentleman's mighty prosperous these days.

They keep things up to the mark, don't they, Ramsey ?" "I don't know whether they do or whether they don't," Ramsey returned shortly.
Fred appeared to muse regretfully.

"It looks kind of _empty_ now, though," he said, "with only Mr.and Mrs.Yocum and their three married daughters, and eight or nine children on the front porch!" "You wait till I get you where they can't see us!" Ramsey warned him, fiercely.
"You can't do it!" said Fred, manifesting triumph.

"We'll both stop right here in plain sight of the whole Yocum family connection till you promise not to touch me." And he halted, leaning back implacably against the Yocum's iron fence.
Ramsey was scandalized.
"Come on!" he said, hoarsely.

"Don't stop _here_!" "I will, and if you go on alone I'll yell at you.