"John Sibley bought it from Mr.Brennan." Mona did not see the look which came into Crozier's face as, with one hand shading his eyes and the other grasping the banknotes which were to start him in life again, independent and self-respecting, he watched the girl riding on and on, ever ahead of the man.
It was at that moment the Young Doctor entered the room, and he distracted Mona's attention for a moment.

Going forward to him Mona shook him warmly by the hand.

Then she went up to Mrs.Tynan and kissed her.
"I would like to kiss your daughter too, Mrs.Tynan," Mona said....
"What are you looking at so hard, Shiel ?" she presently added to her husband.
He did not turn to her.

His eyes were still shaded by his hand.
"That horse goes well yet," he said in a low voice.

"As good as ever--as good as ever." "He loves horses so," remarked Mona, as though she could tell Mrs.Tynan and the Young Doctor anything about Shiel Crozier which they did not know.
"Kitty rides well, doesn't she ?" asked Mrs.Tynan of Crozier.
"What a pair--girl and horse!" Crozier exclaimed.
"Thoroughbred--absolutely thoroughbred!" Kitty had ridden away with her heart's secret, her very own, as she thought: but Shiel Crozier knew--the man that mattered knew.
EPILOGUE Golden, all golden, save where there was a fringe of trees at a watercourse; save where a garden, like a spot of emerald, made a button on the royal garment wrapped across the breast of the prairie.