When he spoke it was with characteristic blunt honesty.
"No; right here our trails fork, Mary.

Ever since I saw you in the jail the first time, you've been worth more to me than anything else in the world, but I can see now that things never can go right with you and me.
I couldn't live back here, and you couldn't live with me out there.

I'm a kind of an outlaw, anyway.

I made up my mind last night that I'd hit the trail alone.

I won't even ask Jack to go with me.