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So, when Peden, watching Morgan calculatively, shifted a little to get himself out of line so he would not stand a barrier between his gun-slingers and their target and longer block the opening of operations to clear the hall of this upstart, Morgan let him go. Then, with a sudden bound, Peden leaped across into the crowd.
"Know myself?" she laughed. "Like a book." "Could you love this island if you were here alone?" "Well, I suppose not," she said, calculatively. "It would not be the same, you know." "Don't you know why you feel as you do about this God-forsaken land, Tennys Huntingford?" he demanded, suddenly drawing very near to her, his burning eyes bent upon hers. "Don't you know why you are happy here?"
After a little he came back and stood before Joe's door, with his long legs far apart, studying the prisoner calculatively, as a farmer stands when he estimates the weight of a hog. "Cree-mo-nee!" said he. He laughed then, much to Joe's confusion, and totally beyond his comprehension. The sheriff left him with that. From the passage his laugh came back.
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