human
What made you run away?
gpt
Why, Fanny, didn't Tom tell you about it?
human
Tom? Oh, you mean Mr. Ruger. He only sent me down here.
gpt
Just like him, Fan; very few words he ever wastes. Ah, sister, we don't have such men out East.
human
So the stage-driver told me,
gpt
There, Fan, you're poking fun now. Wait till I get through. Only for Tom, you would have found me at Ten Mile Gulch, hanging by the neck to the limb of that tree just in front of the Home.
human
Hanging, Jack?
gpt
Hanging, Fan--lynched for a murder I never committed. Tom came along just in the nick of time, and--Well, Fan, perhaps you saw some of the Ten Milers before you came away?
human
Yes, Jack; and there was only one whole nose in the lot, and I do believe that was out of joint. But, oh, Jack! if they had taken your life!
gpt
Never mind now, sis. Tom was too many for 'em; and here I am safe. We'll wait here till Tom comes down, for I've got one of his horses, which he thinks more of than he does of himself; then for home, sis.
human
I wish you were going with us, Mr. Ruger. We shall miss you very much. Won't you go?