I know you aren't stuck up over being majordomo, but all the same you're not the old Dade, whether you know it or not.

You go around as if--well--you know how you've been.

What I wanted to say is, what's the matter?
Is it anything I've said or done ?" He sat down on the stone steps of a hut used for a storehouse and reached moodily for his smoking material.

"I know I didn't say anything about running up against Jose--but it wasn't anything beyond a few words; and, Dade, you've been almighty hard to talk to lately.

If you've got anything against me--" "Oh, quit it!" Dade's face glowed darkly with the blood which shame brought there.