He saw the prospects of this thing right off." "Didn't you see them ?" she questioned quickly.
"Oh, that," he said, flushing.

"If the Drifter hadn't told me mebbe I wouldn't have seen." "You have always been around cattle, I suppose ?" she asked.
"Raised with them," smiled Sanderson.
Thus she directed the conversation to the subject about which she had wanted to inquire--his past life.

Her questions were clever; they were suggestions to which he could do nothing except to return direct replies.

And she got out of him much of his history, discovering that he had sound moral views, and a philosophy of which the salient principle was the scriptural injunction: "Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you." Upon that principle he had founded his character.

His reputation had grown out of an adamantine adherence to it.