You've struck it, pardner." "And how often is Johnson away ?" "'Bout two or three times a week on an average." "But Miss Caroline appears to be able to take care of herself.

She has no fear." "Fear! Fear wasn't hangin' round when SHE was born!" He paused.

"No, sir.

Did ye ever look into them eyes ?" I hadn't, on account of the lashes.

But I didn't care to say this, and only nodded.
"There ain't the created thing livin' or dead, that she can't stand straight up to and look at." I wondered if he had fancied she experienced any difficulty in standing up before that innocently good-humored face, but I could not resist saying:-- "Then I don't see the use of your walking four miles to look after her." I was sorry for it the next minute, for he seemed to have awkwardly broken his pipe, and had to bend down for a long time afterwards to laboriously pick up the smallest fragments of it.