"We won't have to wait.

I'll give him the checks." Before they returned to the buckboard, Aldous halted his friend.
"I couldn't say much in that telegram," he said.

"If Miss Gray wasn't a bit tired and unstrung I'd let her explain.

I want you to tell Mrs.
Blackton that she has come to Tete Jaune on a rather unpleasant mission, old man.

Nothing less than to attend to the grave of a--a near relative." "I regret that--I regret it very much," replied Blackton, flinging away the match he had lighted without touching it to his cigar.