He's had his eye on you for the last three months, and he wants you, but he slipped a cog when he gave me the oars.

You needn't be afraid, though, I'm going to do the square thing by you.

We'll stop in at the Mission and be married, and then we'll see whether we want to go to St.Michael's or not, though personally I'm for going back to Flambeau." During the hours while he had waited for Necia to discover his identity, the man's mind had not been idle; he had determined to take what fortune tossed into his lap.

Had she been the unknown, unnoticed half-breed of a month or two before, he would not have wasted thought upon priests or vows, but now that a strange fate had worked a change in her before the world, he accepted it.
The girl's beauty, her indifference, the mistaken attitude of Stark urged him, and, strongest of all, he was drawn by his cupidity, for she would be very rich, so the knowing ones said.

Doubtless that was why Stark wanted her, and, being a man who acknowledged no fidelity to his kind or his Creator, Runnion determined to outwit his principal, Doret, Burrell, and all the rest.