Raymond S. Spears

“ Don' yo' turn yo' back on any man yo' don't know—and neveh follow the same road twice: neveh tell any man where yo'll step, where yo'll go, or when yo'll come back an', come night, pull down yo' curtains, shut the do'r, and when yo' step outside have no light behind yo'!"
Rillard looked up and down the river; he went out on the bank and talked the tune of day with his fellows; he strolled down the bank with an assumption of ease that he did not feel, and sitting on the bow deck of the Voane boat, heard from Dona's own lips a repetition of the warning that Books had given him. ”

“ WHEN A MAN HAS DONE SOMETHING. BY chance, merely, a number of shanty boats had landed in the eddy where merry-making had instantly sprung up, the arrival of the Whispering Shoals, a ninety-foot amusement craft, making the inclusion of dancing perfectly inevitable. ”

“ When a great fox squirrel suddenly scampered up a tall cottonwood in alarm, seven or eight of the men snatched out revolvers or automatics and began to shoot a wild fusillade that chipped twigs, gashed the bole bark and plugged into the body wood. ”