At any rate, a good many of them kept peering out over the water most of the time, and listening for the sound of oars." She laughed softly.
The men chuckled.

"Talk about strategy," said Mr.Mott, "he's a bird at it.

Keeps 'em guessing, he does.

By glory, I wish I'd known how to handle women as well as he does.

I might have been married fifteen or twenty times if I could have kept 'em anxious and worried,--but I couldn't.