Neither was Lite acting when he plunged through the drift and caught Jean in his arms and held her close against him just as that scene ended.

In the name of realism they cut the scene, because Lite showed that he forgot all about the outlaws and the part he was playing.
So they finished the picture, and the whole company packed their trunks thankfully and turned their faces and all their thoughts westward.
Jean was not at all sure that she wanted to go.

It seemed almost as though she were setting aside her great undertaking; as though she were weakly deserting her dad when she closed the door for the last time upon her room and turned her back upon Lazy A coulee.

But there were certain things which comforted her; Lite was going along to look after the horses, he told her just the day before they started.

For Robert Grant Burns, with an eye to the advertising value of the move, had decided that Pard must go with them.