If it had been in her mind to discover the mystery of this man from Heart's Desire, she had kept it to herself.

But now as they approached the dying fire, she gained the secret of this stranger who had travelled a week by wagon to listen to a bedizened diva of the stage! The consciousness flashed upon her sharply.

Despite her traitorous coloring, she greeted him but coolly.
Porter Barkley, noticing some things and suspecting others, drew a breath of sudden conviction.

With swift jealousy he guessed that this could be none other than the man to whom Ellsworth had referred,--Anderson, the lawyer of Heart's Desire.

Why had not Ellsworth told him that Constance also knew him?
Porter Barkley ran his eye over the tall strong figure, the clean brown jaw, the level eyes, sizing up his man with professional keenness.