He is only anxious to enhance the value of his story by being mysterious.

Well, there was a more or less dramatic happening, of the kind our friends in the old country unwarrantably fancy is typical of the West, in the saloon of the settlement not long ago.

Cards, pistols, a professional gambler, and the unmasking of foul play, don't you know.

Somebody from Silverdale played the leading role." "How interesting!" said a young English girl.

"Now, I used to fancy something of that kind happened here every day before I came out to the prairie.