The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 9 Page 22

“Does he live down in there? I mean the man Irwin — not Apollyon. He’s dead, for Christian slew him.”

“Yes, the Irwins live there. See yonder that spot of cleared red ground? There’s their place. The house is hid by the dark trees nigh the red spot. Can you make it out?”

“Yes, but I call that far.”

“It’s easy riding. Shall we go on? I’m that frightened — we’d better hurry.”

“Is that your way when you are afraid to do a thing; you hurry to do it all the more?”

“Seems like we have to a heap of times. Seems like if I were only a man, I could be brave, but being a girl so, it is right hard.”