And dad--" Mary V's voice trembled "-- he went off that morning with that fellow, exactly in the opposite direction from the ranch! He never intended to come, and he didn't care enough to tell me, even.

He just went as if nothing in the world mattered! And we were all hunting--" "Well, if you look at it that way it's easy enough to handle him," Sudden observed.

"I've been thinking myself the young imp showed mighty little thought for you.

Of course you don't want to marry a fellow like that." "Why, I do too! What, for gracious sake, ever put that idea into your head?
But I don't want him to act like a perfectly crazy lunatic.

I wish you'd speak to him.