I'm going to stay here, and, if I'd had my way, we'd have kicked you out of Silverdale." Winston dropped his hand, but the next moment the ornament of a distinguished family was seized by the neck, and the farmer glanced at Dane.
"We've had enough of this fooling, and he'll be grateful to me to-morrow," he said.
Then his captive was thrust, resisting strenuously, out of the room, and with Dane's assistance conveyed to the waiting wagon, into which he was flung almost speechless with indignation.
"Now," said Dane quietly, "you've given us a good deal more trouble than you're worth, Ferris, and if you attempt to get out again I'll break your head for you.

Tell Courthorne how much that fellow got from you." In another ten minutes they had jolted across the railroad track and were speeding through the silence of the lonely prairie.

Above them the clear stars flung their cold radiance down through vast distances of liquid indigo, and the soft beat of hoofs was the only sound that disturbed the solemn stillness of the wilderness.

Dane drew in a great breath of the cool night air, and laughed quietly.
"It's a good deal more wholesome here in several ways," said he.

"If you're wise, you'll let up on card playing and hanging around the settlement, Ferris, and stick to farming.