Wade, watching Columbine ride down the slope on her homeward way, did some of the hardest thinking he had yet been called upon to do.

It was not necessary to acquaint Wilson Moore with the deeper and more subtle motives that had begun to actuate him.

It would not utterly break the cowboy's spirit to live in suspense.

Columbine was safe for the present.
He had insured her against fatality.

Time was all he needed.