"Go with her, Will! I've warned you she's unsafe alone! Go and
protect her!"
Will grinned, wholly without malice.
"Thanks!" he said. "She's a back number, too. So'm I! If I left
Monty in this pinch she'd never look at me, and I'd not ask her to!
Inherited notions about merit and all that kind of thing, don't you
know, by gosh! No, sir! She and I both sat into this game. She
and I both stay! Wish Esau would open the ball, though. I'm tired
of talking."
Chapter Nineteen
"Such drilling as they have had--such little drilling!"