When the dance ended Lydia and Betty stopped before Wetzel and Betty said: "Lew, aren't you going to ask us to dance ?" The hunter looked down into the happy, gleaming faces, and smiling in his half sad way, answered: "Every man to his gifts." "But you can dance.

I want you to put aside your gun long enough to dance with me.

If I waited for you to ask me, I fear I should have to wait a long time.

Come, Lew, here I am asking you, and I know the other men are dying to dance with me," said Betty, coaxingly, in a roguish voice.
Wetzel never refused a request of Betty's, and so, laying aside his weapons, he danced with her, to the wonder and admiration of all.
Colonel Zane clapped his hands, and everyone stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight Wetzel danced not ungracefully.

He was wonderfully light on his feet.