Edison Marshall

“ I'm going to continue to watch over you, to help you all I can, to do as much of your work as possible; to stand between you and Doomsdorf with my own life. I've learned, in this last day, that love is a spar to cling to when everything else is lost, the most important and the greatest blessing of all. And I'm not going to stop loving you, whether you want me to or not. I'm going to fight for you—to the end.”
“And in the end I'll die,” she commented bitterly.
Doomsdorf reëntered the room then, gazing at them in amused contempt, and Ned instinctively straightened. ”

“ Stripped of his late conceit that might otherwise have concealed it from him, Ned caught every vestige of the man's irony. “Do I get the warm clothes?” he demanded bluntly.
“When you earn them,” was the answer. “In a few days more you'll be running out your traps, and everything you catch, at first, you can keep. You've got to prove yourself smarter than the animals before you get the right to wear their skins.” ”

“ There's work to do to-day. There's got to be another cabin—logs cut, built up, roof put on—a place for the three of you to bunk. That's the work to-day. The three of you ought to get a big piece of it done to-day——”
“Miss Hardenworth? Is she well enough? Couldn't she help your wife with the housework to-day?”
“It will take all three of you to do the work I'll lay out. Lenore can learn to do her stint with the others. And hereafter, when you address me, call me 'Sir.' A mere matter of employer's discipline——”
Because he knew his master, Ned nodded in agreement. “Yes, sir,” he returned simply. ”