Three days later, Lenore accompanied her father on the ride to the Bend country.

She sat in the back seat of the car with Jake--an arrangement very gratifying to the cowboy, but received with ill-concealed displeasure by the driver, Nash.

They had arranged to start at sunrise, and it became manifest that Nash had expected Lenore to sit beside him all during the long ride.

It was her father, however, who took the front seat, and behind Nash's back he had slyly winked at Lenore, as if to compliment her on the evident success of their deep plot.

Lenore, at the first opportunity that presented, shot Nash a warning glance which was sincere enough.