Warden's expressions of regret that he could not accompany her to the Two Diamond were received in silence.

Business would keep him in town for a day or so, he said.
Warden went toward the Wolf, and Della walked down the street to her horse, mounted and rode through mounds of back-yard refuse to the rear of the Willets Hotel.

She got a man out to stable her horse, and a few minutes later she was in the room she had occupied on the night Lawler brought her to town from the line cabin.

She was still pale, but now there was a smile on her lips..