CHAPTER FOUR.
MARY V TO THE RESCUE Mary V Selmer was a young woman of quick impulses, a complete disdain for consequences as yet unseen, and a disposition to have her own way, to override obstacles man-made or sent by fate to thwart her desires.
Ask any man on the Rolling R Ranch, where Mary V was born; they will bear witness that this is true.
Mary V had fired the first gun in the battle of wills.

She had told Johnny Jewel that she would expect him to fly straight to the ranch--if Johnny loved her.

Mary V did not mean to seem dictatorial; she merely wanted Johnny to come back to the Rolling R, and she took what seemed to her to be the surest means of bringing him.

So, serenely sure of Johnny's love, she had no misgivings when the sun went down and those wonderful, opal tints of the afterglow filled all the sky.
Johnny would be hungry, of course.

She wheedled Bedelia, the cook, into letting her keep the veal roast hot in the oven of the gasoline range.