Dick, I shore will be glad to see Ken,” said Jim Williams, in his lazy drawl. “I reckon you’ll be, too?” Jim’s cool and careless way of saying things sometimes irritated me. Glad to see Ken Ward! I was crazy to see the lad. “Jim, what you know about being glad to see any one isn’t a whole lot,” I replied. “You’ve been a Texan ranger all your life. I’ve only been out here in this wild, forsaken country for three years. Ken Ward is from my home in Pennsylvania.