At last, with a little puckering of the brows and a firm contraction of the lips, she dismissed the Kentuckian from her thoughts.
Betty complied with Tom's expressed wish, for she did not again visit Thicket Point, but then she had not intended doing so.

However, the planter was greatly shocked by the discovery he presently made that she was engaged in a vigorous correspondence with Charley.
"I wish to blazes Murrell had told those fellows to kick the life clean out of him while they were about it!" he commented savagely, and fell to cursing impotently.

Brute force was a factor to be introduced with caution into the affairs of life, but if you were going to use it, his belief was that you should use it to the limit.

You couldn't scare Norton, he was in love with that pink-faced little fool.

Keep away ?--he'd never think of it, he'd stuff his pockets full of pistols and the next man who stopped him on the road would better look out! It made him sick--the utter lack of sense manifested by Murrell, and his talk, whenever they met, was still of the girl.