And I guess Warrender wasn't sorry.

For she hated him." "I never cared for Warrender," said Merefleet.

"But I always took him for a gentleman." She laughed at his words with a gaiety that jarred upon him.

"Do you know, Big Bear," she said, "I think they must have forgotten to teach you your ABC when you went to school?
You're such an innocent." Merefleet tramped by her side in silence.

There was something in him that shrank when she spoke in this vein.
But quite suddenly her tone changed.