So as I said before, I thought I'd take a look. I know every
hoss fer ten mile around. So I thought I'd take--"
"You said that three times," broke in Jones impatiently.
"Well, to make a long story short, I thought I'd take a look. I never
seen either of them animals before. They didn't belong around here. So
I thought I'd better hustle down to the house an' speak to pa about
it. Looked mighty queer to me. Course, thinks I, they might belong to
somebody visitin' in there at Green Fancy, so I thought I'd--"
"Green Fancy?" said Barnes, starting.
"Was it up that far?" demanded Jones.
"They was hitched jest about a hundred yards below Mr. Curtis's
propity, on the off side o' the road. Course it's quite a ways in from
the road to the house, an' I couldn't see why if it was anybody
callin' up there they didn't ride all the ways up, 'stead o' walkin'
through the woods. So I thought I'd speak to pa about it. Say," and he
paused abruptly, a queer expression in his eyes, "you don't suppose he
knows what I'm sayin', do you? I wouldn't say anything to hurt the
poor feller's feelin's fer--"
"He doesn't know what you are saying," said Barnes.
"But, dern it, he jest now looked at me in the funniest way.
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