Arthur M. Winfield

“ This answer made Dan Baxter boil with rage, and he stepped closer and shook his fist in Tom's face.
"You be careful or I'll—I'll crack you one," he blustered.
"You're a cheerful brute, Dan, I must say. Why don't you try to fight fair for once? ”

“ Seeing that Tom contemplated running away, he made the youth dismount. "Better make a prisoner of him," he suggested.
"By all means!" cried Dan Baxter, and brought forth a stout lariat. With this Toni's hands were bound behind him, and his feet were also secured.
"That's number one, Roebuck," laughed Arnold Baxter, turning to the man who had thus far remained silent.
"Tom Rover?" asked the man laconically.
"Yes."
"A bright-looking chap."
"Oh, he's bright enough," growled Baxter senior. ”

“ It would be such a delightful change."
"I do fight fair. You and your brothers have no right to poke your noses in my affairs, and my father's."
"This affair out here is our own, not yours. The Eclipse Mine is my father's property." ”