Fortner gave her attire an approving nod.

Aunt Debby followed her with a bottle.

"This is the medicine ye've bin ter git from Dr.Thacker heah in town," she said, handing the vial.
"Remember the name, fur fear ye mout meet some one who knows the town.
Dr.Thacker, who lives a little piece offen the square, an' gives big doses of epecac fur everything, from brakebone fever ter the itch." "Dr.Thacker, who lives just off the square," said Rachel.

"I'll be certain to remember." "Take this, too," said Fortner, handing her a finely-finished revolver, of rather large caliber.

"Don't pull hit onless ye can't git along without hit, an' then make sho o' yer man.