"But I ain't a very good neighbor, I guess; I never seem to have time to be sociable.

It's lucky your horse fell close enough so yuh could walk in to camp; I've had that happen to me more than once, and it ain't never pleasant--but it's worse when there ain't any camp to walk to.

I've had that happen, too." The fire was snapping by then, and manlike he swept the ashes to the floor.

The girl watched him, politely disapproving.

"I don't want to be a trouble," she said, with less of constraint; for Charming Billy, whether he knew it or not, had reassured her immensely.