"Oh," she said with a quavering laugh; "you are poking fun at me.

You liked him, too; you told me you did!" "I reckon I like him," said Toban, his lips grimming; "I like him well enough not to let him pull his freight on account of the Taggarts.
Why, damn it!" he added explosively; "I was his father's friend, an' I ain't seein' him lose everything he's got here when he's innocent.
Which way did he go ?" There was a wild hope in her eyes; she was breathing fast.

"Oh," she said; "are you going after him?
He went to the Arrow--first.

He told me he was going to kill the Taggarts.

Then he is going to get out of the Territory.