The Indian rising has driven all the miners out from the Black Range, and he came down here for no other purpose than to get a glimpse of me, and learn how I was getting on.

I--I saw him over at the hotel just for a moment--Mrs.Guffy handed me a note--and I--I had only just left him when I encountered you at the door.

I wanted to see him again, to talk with him longer, but I couldn't manage to get away from you, and I didn't know what to do.

There, I've told it all; do you really think I am so very bad, because--because I like Bob Hampton ?" He stood a moment completely nonplussed, yet compelled to answer.
"I certainly have no right to question your motives," he said, at last, "and I believe your purposes to be above reproach.

I wish I might give the same credit to this man Hampton.