Just now I suspect him of being even deeper in the mire than this." He could tell by the quick clasping of her hands on the pommel of the saddle the effect of his words, but waited until the silence compelled her to speak.
"Oh, I didn't know! You do not believe that I ever suspected such a thing?
That I ever met him there understanding who he was ?" "No, I do not," he answered.

"What I overheard between you convinced me you were the victim of deceit.

But your going to that place alone was a most reckless act." She lifted her hand to her eyes, her head drooping forward.
"Wasn't it what he told me--the out-station of a ranch ?" "No; I have ridden this country for years, and there is no ranch pasturing cattle along the Salt Fork.

Miss Hope, I want you to comprehend what it is you have escaped from; what you are now fleeing from.

Within the last two years an apparently organized body of outlaws have been operating throughout this entire region.