They won more of his money than they cared to count.
Columbine confided to Wade, with mournful whisper, that Jack paid no attention to her whatever, and that the old rancher attributed this coldness, and Jack's backsliding, to her irresponsiveness and her tardiness in setting the wedding-day that must be set.

To this Wade had whispered in reply, "Don't ever forget what I said to you an' Wils that day!" So Wade upheld Columbine with his subtle dominance, and watched over her, as it were, from afar.

No longer was he welcome in the big living-room.

Belllounds reacted to his son's influence.
Twice in the early mornings Wade had surprised Jack Belllounds in the blacksmith shop.

The meetings were accidental, yet Wade ever remembered how coincidence beckoned him thither and how circumstance magnified strange reflections.