Sammy greeted the youth kindly, "I haven't seen Pete for days and days; where has he been ?" "Pete's been everywhere; an' course I've been with him," replied the lad with his wide, sweeping gesture.

Then throwing himself at full length at the girl's feet, he said, abruptly, "Pete was here that night, and God, he was here, too.

Couldn't nobody else but God o' done it.

The gun went bang, and a lot more guns went bang, bang, all along the mountains.

And the moonlight things that was a dancin' quit 'cause they was scared; and that panther it just doubled up and died.