"And why didn't you see this Mr.Horseley after all?
Oh, I forgot!--you said you changed your mind from something you'd heard." He had turned his eyes to the fire again, but without noticing as he did so that she slowly moved her face, still half hidden by her hand, towards him and was watching him intently.
"No," he said, slowly, "nothin' I heard, somethin' I felt.

It mout hev been that that set me off the track.

It kem to me all of a sudden that he might be sittin' thar calm and peaceful like ez I might be here, hevin' forgot all about her and his trouble, and here was me goin' to drop down upon him and start it all fresh agin.

It looked a little like persecution--yes, like persecution.

I got rid of it, sayin' to myself it was business.