But it would be absurd to notice it.

Don't you think so ?" In spite of her effort to speak calmly, there was a tremble in her voice, and Alan was puzzled at the quickness with which the color went from her face, leaving it strangely white.
"I am at your service," he replied with a rather cold inclination of his head.

"But if you were my sister, Miss Standish, I would not allow anything like that to go unchallenged." He watched the stranger until he disappeared through a door out upon the deck.
"One of John Graham's men," he said.

"A fellow named Rossland, going up to get a final grip on the salmon fishing, I understand.

They'll choke the life out of it in another two years.