If you let 'em get Haineswell, Haines is Silent's partner an' Jim'll bust everything wide to get even with you.

And Hope Georgia watched it all and rejoiced, for she believed with all the accrued erudition of eighteen years of innocent girlhood that Mr. Bud Haines was quite the finest specimen of young manhood this world had ever produced.

"Old man Perkins, didn't he tell us that Haines was the man that Whistlin' Dan Barry had brought down into Elkhead?

Mr. Haines was a great dreamer, and my uncle constantly stumbled over passages needing elucidation.