Charlie Menocal! Her cheeks grew warm.
What he had boasted in regard to herself, and doubtless Mr.Bryant had softened the truth, filled her with anger.

She would treat the insufferable wretch differently hereafter.

And very likely his gossip of the engineer's feelings for one of the homesteaders was likewise a falsehood, though there was no reason in the world why Mr.Bryant shouldn't love one of them if he chose.

She had never met them.

They were very nice girls, she imagined.