Could she hold her curiosity in check that long?
Many of the days that followed dragged, many flew--the first for Kathlyn, the last for Winnie, who now had a beau, a young newspaper man from San Francisco.

He came out regularly every Saturday and returned at night.

Winnie became, if anything, more flighty than ever.

Her father never had young men about.

The men he generally gathered round his board were old hunters or sailors.