For my life I could not have told why I knew something had happened since my last visit, but I certainly felt it; and was proportionately curious and anxious.
The first person I saw whom I recognized was Dick, and he handed me a note from Sally.

She seemed to take it for granted that I had been wise to leave the ranch.

Miss Sampson had softened somewhat when she learned Sally and I were engaged, and she had forgiven my deceit.

Sally asked me to come that night after eight, down among the trees and shrubbery, to a secluded spot we knew.

It was a brief note and all to the point.