Her name is Merridy Bennett." "I don't suppose you know I'm going to marry her," said the Kentuckian, irrelevantly.
"No," replied the other, "I wasn't aware of the fact." "Well, I am.

I'll be your son-in-law." He said this as if it were the statement of an astonishing truth, whereat Stark grinned, a mirthless, disquieting sort of grimace, and said: "There's a lot of things for you and me to settle up first.

For one thing, I want those mines of hers." "Why ?" "Well, I'm her father, and she's not of age." "I'll think it over." "I'll take them, anyway, as her next of kin." Burrell did not follow up this statement, for its truth was incontrovertible, and showed that the father's ill-will was too tangible a thing to be concealed; so he continued: "We'll adjust that after Gale is attended to; but, meanwhile, what do you want me to do ?" "I want you to arrest the man who killed my wife.

If you don't take him the miners will.

I've got a following in this camp, and I'll raise a crowd in fifteen minutes--enough to hang this squaw-man, or batter down your barracks to get him.