[The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Covered Wagon CHAPTER XIV 1/24
THE KISS "It was the wind!" Will Banion exclaimed.
"It was the sky, the earth! It was the fire! I don't know what it was! I swear it was not I who did it! Don't forgive me, but don't blame me.
Molly! Molly! "It had to be sometime," he went on, since she still drew away from him. "What chance have I had to ask you before now? It's little I have to offer but my love." "What do you mean? It will never be at any time!" said Molly Wingate slowly, her hand touching his no more. "What do you yourself mean ?" He turned to her in agony of soul.
"You will not let me repent? You will not give me some sort of chance ?" "No," she said coldly.
"You have had chance enough to be a gentleman--as much as you had when you were in Mexico with other women.
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