"Sorter hurts yer perfessional feelins, don't it, old feller, to be dropped in on in this unceremonious way?
But it was dead easy, old man.

Ye see I happened thro' Cheyenne only a couple o' hours behind ye, with a bunch o' papers fer the Yellowstone.

The trail's plain enough out this far, and I loped 'long at a pretty fair hickory, so thet I was up on the bluff yonder, and saw ye go into camp yere just afore dark.

You wus a-keepin' yer eyes skinned across the Fourche, and naturally didn't expect no callers from them hills behind.
The rest wus nuthin', an' here I am.

It's a darn sight pleasanter ter hev company travellin', ter my notion.