He listened until the song was done, then mounted and rode away, Bud's laugh following him triumphantly--though Lew could not have guessed its meaning.
Bud sang for two hours expectantly, but Marian did not appear, and Bud went off to the bunk-house feeling that his attempt to hearten her had been a failure.

Of Honey he did not think at all, except to wonder if the two women were related in any way, and to feel that if they were Marian was to be pitied.

At that point Jerry overtook him and asked for a match, which gave him an excuse to hold Bud behind the others.
"Honey like to have caught me, to-night," Jerry observed guardedly.
"I had to think quick.

I'll tell you the lay of the land, Bud, seeing you're a stranger here.

Marian's man, Lew, he's a damned bully and somebody is going to draw a fine bead on him some day when he ain't looking.