human
Honest, it floored me completely to see what that poor old woman has been up against down here, he told Warren, stuffing tobacco into a silver-rimmed, briar pipe while Ward saddled Blue.
gpt
I don't know a hell of a lot about this ranch game; but if that old lady can put it across, I guess I can wobble along somehow. Too bad the old man cashed in just now; but Aunt Martha as good as told me he wasn't much force, so maybe I can play a lone hand here as easy as I could have done with him. Live near here?
human
Fifteen miles or so.
gpt
Oh, well--it might have been fifty. I know how you fellows measure distances out here. I'm likely to need a little coaching, now and then, if I live up to what I just now told the old lady.
human
From all I know of her, you won't need to go out of the Cove for advice.
gpt
Well, that's right, judging from the looks of things. A woman that can go up against a proposition like she did to-day and handle it alone, is no mental weakling; to say nothing of the way this ranch looks. All right, Warren; I'll make out alone, I reckon.