In the third place, he would think she was riding over there for a reason which was untrue and very, very unjust.

And he wouldn't fire Tex, because Tex was a good "hand" and hands were hard to find.

He would simply make her promise to stay at home.
"He'd say it was perfectly all right for Tex--and perfectly all wrong for me.

Dad's _tremendously_ pin-headed where I am concerned.

So I suppose I'll just have to say nothing, and ride all that long way in the hot sun to make sure that horrid Johnny Jewel is not being murdered or something.
It doesn't, of course, concern me personally at all--but dad is _so_ short-handed this summer.