She would come if he convinced her that he would not go up and coax her to come.

Ramon had known many girls who were given to sulking over what he considered their imaginary wrongs, and he was very sure that he knew women better than they knew themselves.

She would come, give her time enough, and she could not fling at him then any taunt that he had been over-eager.

Certainly she would come--she was a woman! But the shadow of the pines lengthened until they lay like long fingers across the earth; and still she did not come.

Bill Holmes and Luis, secure in the knowledge that Ramon was on guard against any unlooked-for visitors, slept heavily on the crude bunks in the cabin.