TWO:Like the stirring of a child in sleep, the panic lasted only a little while, and gave way to an apathetic peace. Here and there an Albert munched on a leaf, holding it up before his wide mouth in the pose of a giant squirrel. Others sat quietly looking at the walls or the door or the window, or at nothing. One, whose name was Cadnan, stirred briefly and dropped the leaf he was eating and turned to the Albert next to him.
TWO:"Well," said Billings, defensively, "the feller is a straggler, without papers to show where he belonged, and he was very sassy to mecalled me a liar, and said other mean things, right before my men, and I had to order him bucked-and-gagged to shut him up."He couldn't think of anything to say. Finally he settled on: "My name's Dodd," as the simplest and quickest way of breaking the ice that surrounded him.
