"I've been what they call a Jonah, don't you think, Mr.Gage ?" "Oh, no, ma'am!" "It was very noble of you--up there," she began, on another tack.

"You saved my life.

Not worth much." She was smiling cheerily as she could.

Sim Gage looked carefully at her face to see how much she knew.
"Doctor Barnes told me that that man, the one that took me away, was hurt by a tree; that you got there too late to save him.

But to think, I'd have shot that man.