"That silly, cheap snapshot!" She stopped.

She had admitted everything already, and she had intended to be a very sphinx with this strange Westerner.
"It was only a joke," she said.

"I--I didn't really mean to--" "Do you know what that joke did ?" asked Ronicky.

"It made two men fight, then cross the continent together and get on the trail of a girl whose name they didn't even know.

They found the girl, and then she said she'd forgotten--but no, I don't mean to blame you.