There's only one hook for them, and I know where it is." She gave him a quick scrutiny that was almost woman-like, then sighed with relief as she unbuckled the heavy belt and passed it to him.
"I doubt if I ever want to see another revolver," she complained.

"That one has worn a hole in me, I'm sure.

I never dreamed I could get so weary of one." Sheldon watched her to the foot of the steps, where she turned and called back,-- "My! I can't tell you how good it is to be home again." And as his gaze continued to follow her across the compound to the tiny grass house, the realization came to him crushingly that Berande and that little grass house was the only place in the world she could call "home." * * * * * "And Burnett said, 'Well, I'll be damned--I beg your pardon, Miss Lackland, but you have wantonly broken the recruiting laws and you know it,'" Captain Munster narrated, as they sat over their whisky, waiting for Joan to come back.

"And says she to him, 'Mr.Burnett, can you show me any law against taking the passengers off a vessel that's on a reef ?' 'That is not the point,' says he.

'It's the very, precise, particular point,' says she and you bear it in mind and go ahead and pass my recruits.