The little brown horse and the little brown girl were one with the little brown station so far away, and presently the saloon and men were blotted out in one blur of green and brown and yellow.
He looked to the ground in his despair.

He _must_ go back.

He could not leave her in such peril.

She was his to care for by all the rights of manhood and womanhood.

She had been put in his way.