I did what most men would have done, I reckon, because I was just average in every way.

I took Alluna, and together we drifted North, along the frontier, until we landed here.
Every year the little girl got more beautiful and more like her mother, and every year we two loved her more.

We changed her name, of course, for I've always had the dread of the law back of me, and then the other two kiddies came along; but we were living pretty easy, the woman contented and me waiting for Bennett, till you stepped in and Necia fell in love.

That's another thing I never counted on.

It seems like I've always overlooked the plainest kind of facts.