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`` Just about that , Jessie . '' `` It would kill me to keep up such a gait as you and Frank seem to both take delight in , '' she continued . `` So I must be poking along for four hours doing the distance that you could cover in two . The Land Office opens at seven o'clock -- there 's a rush of business just now , Mr. Wilson says -- and I must start not later than half-past two . '' `` Dear me , Jessie , I hate to have you start out alone in the night , that way ! '' `` I do n't like it very well myself , '' Jessie admitted . `` But Mr. Wilson thought we 'd better not say a word to any one about my going -- lest it should get to Mr. Horton 's ears some way , and he will drive around later in the morning and pick up the witnesses and bring them down .