Much easier to handle in court, if there's no violence to complicate the case." "They're looking for it," Phoebe reminded him bluntly.

"The man had a gun, and threw down on Vadnie." "He only pointed it at me, auntie," Evadna corrected, ignorant of the Western phrase.
The two women followed the men outside and into the shady yard, where the trees hid completely what lay across the road and beyond the double row of poplars.

Donny, leaning far forward and digging his bare toes into the loose soil for more speed, raced on ahead, anxious to see and hear all that took place.
"If the boys don't stir up a lot of antagonism," Baumberger kept urging Peaceful and Phoebe, as they hurried into the garden, "the matter ought to be settled without much trouble.

You can get an injunction, and--" "The idea of anybody trying to hold our place for mineral land!" Phoebe's indignation was cumulative always, and was now bubbling into wrath.

"Why, my grief! Thomas spent one whole summer washing every likely spot around here.