I ain't." "Till you're stirred up, Mr.Wilkes ?" "Heat me up an' I'll burn.

Soil wood." "You're pretty familiar with the Western country ?" "I get around." "Perhaps you'd recognize this." He took a scroll from his breast pocket and unrolled the photograph of the forest and the ranchhouse with the two mountains in the distance.
Wilkes considered it unperturbed.
"Them are the Little Brothers." "Ah! Then all I have to do is to travel to the foot of the Little Brothers ?" "No, about sixty miles from 'em." "Impossible! Why, the mountains almost overhang that house." Wilkes handed back the picture and resumed his eating without reply.

It was not a sullen resentment; it was hunger and a lack of curiosity.

He was not "heated up." "Any one," said Anthony, to lure the other on, "could see that." "Sure; any one with bad eyes." "But how can you tell it's sixty miles ?" "I've been there." "Well, at least the big tree there and the ranchhouse will not be very hard to find.

But I suppose I'll have to travel in a circle around the Little Brothers, keeping a sixty-mile radius ?" "If you want to waste a pile of time.