Why not have these friends meet them at the train and take Joanne direct to their house?
Such recognition and friendship would mean everything to Joanne.

To take her to his cabin would mean---- Inwardly he swore at himself as he hurried back to the station, and his face burned hotly as he thought of the chance such a blunder on his part would have given Quade and Culver Rann to circulate the stories with which they largely played their scoundrelly game.

He sent another and longer telegram.

This time it was to Blackton.
He ate dinner with Stevens, who had his new outfit ready for the mountains.
It was two o'clock before he brought Joanne up to the station.

She was dressed now as he had first seen her when she entered Quade's place.