"She could see death an' hell written all over your face, most like." "I suppose," muttered Haines, "I--I was sick! "'Tell me!' she said, coming close up.
"'He's gone wild again,' was all I could put my tongue to.
"Then I blurted it out.

I had to get rid of the damned story some way, and the quickest way seemed the best--how Dan rode into Alder and did the killing.
"When I got to that she gave one cry." "I know," said Buck, shuddering.

"Like something dying." "Then she asked me to saddle her horse.

I begged her to let me go with her, and she said to me what she just now said to you.

And so I stayed.
What good could we do against that devil ?".