Said you was the principal object of interest in town just now, which is more or less true.

But it makes me suspicious, all the same.

Why should a girl like that Colton one talk about a feller like you?
You're as fur apart, fur's anything in common is concerned, as molasses is from vinegar.

Ain't that so ?" It was so, of course, but he need not have been so brutally frank in telling me.

However, I nodded and admitted that he was right.
"Yes," he said.