"Thank y'u, Mac. But y'u see I got to stay to keep Miss Nora from
getting bored."
"Was it a phrenologist strung y'u with the notion y'u was a cure
for lonesomeness?"
"Shucks! I don't make no such claims. The only thing is it's a
comfort when you're bored to have company. Miss Nora, she's so
polite. But, y'u see, if I'm along I can take y'u for a walk when
y'u get too bad."
They reached the little trail that ran up to Lee Ming's place,
and Denver suggested that Mac run in with the bundle so as to
save Nora the climb.
"I'd like to, honest I would. But since y'u thought of it first I
won't steal the credit of doing Miss Nora a good turn. We'll wait
right here for y'u till y'u come back."
"We'll all go up together," decided Nora, and honors were easy.
In the pleasant moonlight they sauntered back, two of them still
engaged in lively badinage. while the third played chorus with
appreciative little giggles and murmurs of "Oh, Mr. Halliday!"
and "You know you're just flattering me, Mr. McWilliams."
If they had not been so absorbed in their gay foolishness the two
men might not have walked so innocently into the trap waiting for
them at their journey's end.
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