"I see your manners haven't improved an' you're still wild about cowboys." "People don't have good manners with--with--" "Bo, hush!" admonished Helen.

It was difficult to reprove Bo just then, for that young lady had not the slightest fear of Riggs.

Indeed, she looked as if she could slap his face.

And Helen realized that however her intelligence had grasped the possibilities of leaving home for a wild country, and whatever her determination to be brave, the actual beginning of self-reliance had left her spirit weak.

She would rise out of that.