He was the incarnation of that spirit which fighting Texas had developed to oppose wildness and disorder and crime.

He would carry through this Linrock case; but even so, if he were not killed, his career would be ruined.

He might save the Service, yet at the cost of his happiness.

He was not a machine; he was a man.

He might be a perfect Ranger; still he was a human being.
The loveliness, the passion, the tragedy of a woman, great as they were, had not power to shake him from his duty.