They shore learned me a lot about dodgin'.

So now yuh got the hull story.

If it was the sheriff behind me an' if he trails me here, they got no evidence an' you can mebby square it with 'im.

You'd know what t' tell 'im--which is more'n what Casey Ryan can say." Casey fell asleep immediately afterward, but Mack Nolan lay for a long while with his eyes wide open and his ears alert for strange sounds in the gulch.

He was a new man in this district, working independently of sheriff's offices.