Is him they call Whistlin' Dan comin' this way?
Are you runnin' from him?
And did you steal the kid from him ?" Lee Haines took upon his competent shoulders the duty of answering.
"You look like a sensible man, Swann," he said severely.

"I'm surprised at you.

In the first place, two men don't run away from one." A fleeting smile appeared and disappeared on the lips of Ben Swann.
Haines hastily went on: "As for stealing the baby from Dan Barry, good heavens, man, don't you think a mother has a right to her own child?
Now go back to that scared bunch and tell them that Dan Barry is back in the Grizzly Peaks." For several reasons this did not completely satisfy the foreman, but he postponed his decision.

Lee Haines spoke like one in the habit of giving orders, and Swann walked slowly back to the cookhouse..