"If I tell you that, you will both despise me." "Try us," said Ronicky.

"And you can lay to this, lady, that, when a gent out of the West says 'partner' to a girl or a man, he means it.
What you do may be bad; what you are is all right.

We both know it.

The inside of you is right, lady, no matter what John Mark makes you do.

But tell us straight, what is it ?" "He has made me," said the girl, her head falling, "a thief!" Ronicky saw Bill Gregg wince, as if someone had struck him in the face.
And he himself waited, curious to see what the big fellow would do.