"I should find it very difficult, and the care of a daughter is a heavy responsibility," he said.

Miss Townshead did not return for some little while, but stood above the cedar washing-board scarcely seeing the dishes that once or twice almost slipped from her hand.

There was, her father had told her, one man who could help them in the only way in which assistance could be accepted, and she felt sure he would.

If rancher Alton failed to keep his word she felt it would be very difficult to believe in the honour of his sex again..