have

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

He asked, `` Could we have a drink ''??

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

`` We've been looking for work, but all the ranchers have turned us down ''.

You'd have starved to death if you'd missed both places ''.

`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

He said: `` You'll feel a lot better after you have a bath.

You'll have to go to town to see the doc ''.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

There's someone there I have to see.

I have to think about it.

You'll have to try it alone ''.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

`` What would you have done in Montero's moccasins??

Before we get through he'll have the Blackfeet hankerin' for our hair and our goods.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

More of an agricultural nation, they have relied on their warriors only for defense and for survival in the endless wars of the plains.

An hour before, with the children asleep and nothing but the strange darkness, he would have appreciated company.

I have it with me, right here.

It must have got there when you fell against me ''.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

He couldn't afford to have anyone mess around with them, he said.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.