They saved the house.

It wasn't burned very much anyways, so Nels told me." Sim Gage and his companion, stupefied, sat looking at the bearer of this news.
"Who done it ?" asked Wid Gardner grimly after a time.

"That ain't no accident." "Pop Bentley in here said Big Aleck, the squatter, come up the valley this morning right early----" "That hellion!" exclaimed Sim.

"He's always made trouble in this valley.

We seen him down below here, driving a broad-tire wagon." "Yes, a Company wagon, and a Company team.