"She's got it in her," he thought, silently, "and, by thunder! I 'm here to help her get it out." "Kid," he ventured at last, turning over a broken fragment of rock between his restless fingers, but without lifting his eyes, "you were talking while we came up the trail about how we 'd do this and that after a while.

You don't suppose I 'm going to have any useless girl like you hanging around on to me, do you ?" She glanced quickly about at him, as though such unexpected expressions startled her from a pleasant reverie.

"Why, I--I thought that was the way you planned it yesterday," she exclaimed, doubtfully.
"Oh, yesterday! Well, you see, yesterday I was sort of dreaming; to-day I am wide awake, and I 've about decided, Kid, that for your own good, and my comfort, I 've got to shake you." A sudden gleam of fierce resentment leaped into the dark eyes, the unrestrained glow of a passion which had never known control.

"Oh, you have, have you, Mister Bob Hampton?
You have about decided! Well, why don't you altogether decide?
I don't think I'm down on my knees begging you for mercy.

Good Lord! I reckon I can get along all right without you--I did before.