If there were anything wild in his nature it would be brought out that day.

She was almost glad the time of trial had come.
She said: "How about the guns, Mr.Morgan ?" "If you want them collected and put away for a while," offered Lee Haines, "I'll do what I can to help you!" Her smile of thanks set his blood tingling.

His glance lingered a little too long, a little too gladly, and she coloured slightly.
"Miss Cumberland," said Haines, "may I introduce myself?
My name is Lee." She hesitated.

The manners she had learned in the Eastern school forbade it, but her Western instinct was truer and stronger.

Her hand went out to him.
"I'm very glad to know you, Mr.Lee." "All right, stranger," said Morgan, who in the meantime had been shifting from one foot to the other and estimating the large chances of failure in this attempt to collect the guns, "if you're going to help me corral the shootin' irons, let's start the roundup." The girl went with them.