No one need know, and you can tell Warden that you were caught in the storm and drifted to the Circle L, where you stayed with my mother.

I can come back here and no one will ever know the difference." "I don't want to see your mother!" she sneered.

"I'd be afraid she would be something like you! Ugh! I hate you!" "There is only one other way," smiled Lawler.

"I know Keller, the owner of the Willets Hotel, very intimately.

I can take you there, at night--after the storm breaks.