Here, there was no kindly brakeman to help the sisters with their luggage.

Helen bade Bo take her share; thus burdened, they made an awkward and laborious shift to get off the train.
Upon the platform of the car a strong hand seized Helen's heavy bag, with which she was straining, and a loud voice called out: "Girls, we're here--sure out in the wild an' woolly West!" The speaker was Riggs, and he had possessed himself of part of her baggage with action and speech meant more to impress the curious crowd than to be really kind.

In the excitement of arriving Helen had forgotten him.

The manner of sudden reminder--the insincerity of it--made her temper flash.

She almost fell, encumbered as she was, in her hurry to descend the steps.