to get clear of any instructions or messages that Mary might have forgotten

to give him overnight. He took his gun with him.

I'd always thought that a man was a fool who couldn't keep a secret

from his wife -- that there was something womanish about him. I found out.

Those three days waiting for the buggy were about the longest I ever spent

in my life. It made me scotty with every one and everything;

and poor Mary had to suffer for it. I put in the time

patching up the harness and mending the stockyard and the roof,