The rancher, however, had apparently no present intention of asking any.
"So they've been wondering when I am coming over," he said reflectively.

"I don't know that I'll come at all." Deringham looked down at his cigar to cover his astonishment.

"But you are an Alton of Carnaby," he said.
"Yes," said Alton slowly.

"But that is one of the things I want to forget.

You see they drove my father out because he had the grit to marry the woman who loved him instead of another one who had the money, but you know all that ?" Deringham nodded, and Alton's face showed grim in the moonlight as he continued: "But what you don't know is how he fought his way uphill in this country, and what my mother suffered helping him.