"Why, who told you that I wrote ?" she questioned.
"Nobody told me, ma'am.

I just heard it.

I heard a man tell another man that you had threatened to make him a character in a book you was writin'." Her face was suddenly convulsed.

"I imagine I know whom you mean," she said.

"A young cowboy from the Two Diamond used to annoy me quite a little, until one day I discouraged him." His smile grew broad at this answer.