He was angry enough, but this thought made him angrier--that he hadn't been treated worse.

Which goes to show what a reasonable thing anger is! Whitey went out, sat down behind the cook's shack, and gave way to gloomy reflections.

He reviewed his past life for quite a way back, and everything in it seemed to be wrong.

He wanted to do big things, and he always was just missing them.

If he had been earlier when he followed those train robbers, he might have warned the people on the train, and been a sort of hero.