Don't you think that I should be kind to our cowboys ?" "I suppose so," the professor sighed.

"But it hurts me to see you have anything whatever in common with such a man.

It shocks me to know that you must, in any degree, come in touch with such fellows.

I shall be very glad, indeed, when you are free from any such kindly obligations, and safe among those of your own class." Kitty found it very hard to reply.

She did not wish to be disloyal to Patches and her many Williamson Valley friends; nor did she like to explain how Patches had played a part for the professor's benefit, for she felt that by not exposing the deception she had, in a way, been a party to it.