Kirby had planned to marry you from the very first, as I explained to you before.

He told me that on the _Warrior_ the night your father died." "Yes, you said so; but I did not quite understand--he planned then--why ?" "Because he had heard of your beauty and that you were rich.

Were these not reasons enough?
But, after he had mistaken you for Rene, the only possible way in which he could hope to gain you was by force.

Jack Rale suggested that to him and how it could be done.

The other man was a friend of Rale's, a renegade preacher named Gaskins; he is dead." "Dead! Killed ?" "Yes; we brought you away after a fight with those fellows.