The stub off a sagebrush maybe ?" He ogled her quite frankly.

"When a little girl gets scared--Sick the dogs on him," he advised the family collectively, his manner changing to a blustering anxiety that her fright should be avenged.
Evadna seemed to take his tone as a direct challenge.

"I was scared, but I know quite well what I saw.

He wasn't a tramp.

He had a regular camp, with a coffee-pot and frying-pan and blankets.