Talkin' with Cress that night, she said ez how it was a fair sample of what happened every day, and that you'd always treated her fair like the others.

So she allowed that she'd go down to Sacramento, and get some things agin her and Seth bein' married next month, and she reckoned she wouldn't trouble you nor the school agin.
Hark till I've done, Mr.Ford," he continued, as the young man made a slight movement of deprecation.

"Well, I agreed.

But arter she got to Sacramento and bought some fancy fixin's, she wrote to me and sez ez how she'd been thinkin' the hull thing over, and she reckoned that she and Seth were too young to marry, and the engagement had better be broke.
And I broke it for her." "But how ?" asked the bewildered master.
"Gin'rally with this gun," returned McKinstry with slow gravity, indicating the rifle he was carrying, "for I ain't kam.

I let on to Seth's father that if I ever found Seth and Cressy together again, I'd shoot him.