She really had a good deal of intelligence despite her affectation, and conversation with her was both interesting and diverting.

It helped him to forget Hannah, and Bud, and the robbery, and all the rest, and she was so delighted to find somebody to make an impression on that she had come out to talk while Ralph was at work.

But just at this moment the school-master was not so much interested in her interesting remarks, nor so much amused by her amusing remarks, as he should have been.

He saw a man coming down the road riding one horse and leading another, and he recognized the horses at a distance.

It must be Bud who was riding Means's bay mare and leading Bud's roan colt.