And Colmor betrayed the trouble of his soul.
The code of men held him bound, and he could not break from it, though he divined in that moment how truly it was wrong.
"Jean, your dad started me in the cattle business," said Colmor, earnestly.

"An' I'm doin' well now.

An' when I asked him for Ann he said he'd be glad to have me in the family....

Well, when this talk of fight come up, I asked your dad to let me go in on his side.

He wouldn't hear of it.