I've got to tell you what happened, and then if you want to lead me out and shoot me, I won't say a word.

I say, curse a firecracker anyway!" "Go on," urged Alan.

"I'm interested." "I got 'em on the boat," continued Stampede viciously.

"And she with me every minute, smiling in that angel way of hers, and not letting me out of her sight a flick of her eyelash, unless there was only one hole to go in an' come out at.

And then she said she wanted to do a little shopping, which meant going into every shack in town and buyin' something, an' I did the lugging.