I am sure I have." The young woman was determined now to know what lay at the bottom of all this.

She said quietly, but with a great deal of decision, "You may go on home if you wish; I am going to wait here until Young Matt comes back." Ollie was angry now in good earnest.

He had not told Sammy of the incident at the Lookout because he felt that the story would bring the backwoodsman into a light altogether too favorable.

He thought to have the girl safely won before he left the hills; then it would not matter.

That Young Matt would have really saved Ollie's life at the risk of his own there was no doubt.