Or she may stay with one of the girls she's chummy with and come up with him to-morrow.
Probably that." Lee made ready to go.

He gave Imogene a sardonic smile.
"May the music she hears to-night strengthen her soul for the morrow's smash," he said; and went out.
Where the trail from the cabins debouched upon the main mesa road he slowed the car to a stop and sat for a time in thought, with the engine humming softly and the freezing night air biting at his cheeks.
It seemed to make little difference where he went, or if he went at all.

Nothing worth while was at the end of any road.

His inclination, however, was working and at last he set out for the Graham ranch.
Since his Christmas visit he had made a number of calls there, a rather large number, indeed, considering everything.

He had schooled his face and words on those occasions to a passivity he was far from feeling, and had left Louise's presence each time with a greater torment of mind.