you brought me from, I'll be under obligations to you."

"Whatever you are, I'm not going to have your blood on my hands.
You've got to leave the valley."

"I have to thank you for all your kindness to me. If you'd extend it a
trifle further and listen to what I've got to say, I'd be grateful."

"I don't care to hear your excuses. Go quickly, sir, before you meet
the end you deserve, and give up the poor men I have betrayed to you."
She spoke in a choked voice, as if she could scarce breathe.

"If you'd only listen before you----"

"I've listened to you too long. I was so sure I knew more than my
father, than my friends. I'll listen no more."

The Texan gave it up. "All right, ma'am. Just as you say. If you'll
order some kind of a rig for me, I'll not trouble you longer. I'm
sorry that it's got to be this way. Maybe some time you'll see it
different."

"Never," she flashed passionately, and fled from the room.

He did not see her again before he left. Bobbie came to get him in a
light road trap they had. The boy looked at him askance, as if he knew
something was wrong. Presently they turned a corner and left the ranch
shut from sight in a fold of the hills.

At the first division of the road Fraser came to a difference of