For some reason it made him ill at ease to see it.
"He won't get here for eight or ten hours," went on Buck Daniels, easing himself into a more comfortable position, and raising his head a little higher.

"Ten hours more, even if he does come.

That'll give me a chance to rest up; right now I'm kind of shaky." "A condition, you will observe, in which Mr.Barry will also be when he arrives," remarked the doctor.
"Shaky ?" grinned Buck Daniels.

"M'frien', you don't know that bird!" He sat up, clenching his fist.

"And if Dan _does_ come, he can't affo'd to press me too far! I'll take so much, and then----" He struck his fist on the arm of the chair.
"Buck!" cried Kate Cumberland.