"My friend, Judge Hale, must be a regular Roman citizen to leave such a family and such a house at the call of public duty.

Eh, Rawlins ?" "You bet," said Rawlins, looking from Kate to her sister in undisguised admiration.
"And I suppose the duty could not have been a very pleasant one," said Mrs.Hale, timidly, without looking at her husband.
"Gad, madam, that's just it," said the gallant Colonel, seating himself with a comfortable air, and an easy, though by no means disrespectful, familiarity.

"We went into this fight a little more than a week ago.

The only scrimmage we've had has been with the detectives that were on the robbers' track.

Ha! ha! The best people we've met have been the friends of the men we were huntin', and we've generally come to the conclusion to vote the other ticket! Ez Judge Hale and me agreed ez we came along, the two men ez we'd most like to see just now and shake hands with are George Lee and Ned Falkner." "The two leaders of the party who robbed the coach," explained Mr.Hale, with a slight return of his usual precision of statement.
The three women looked at each other with a blaze of thanksgiving in their grateful eyes.