"Old Seth Craddock's guns," he said, musing as on a recurring memory.

"His guns!" she murmured, drawing closer into the shadow of his strength.

Transcriber's Notes

  1. The author's consistent use of a lower-case letter following an exclamation point or a question mark inside quoted dialect has been retained.
  2. Other punctuation has been normalized to contemporary standards.
  3. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.