Sure enough he was.

He puts his head up against Blackleg's head, an' he said, soft an' low, kinda: "'Blackleg,' he said; 'I've give you away.

I hated like poison to do it, but I reckon Betty'll look a heap better on you than she does on that skate she rode today.

Damn that black devil!' he said, 'I wouldn't have took the job of breakin' him for any other woman in the world.' "I come away then," concluded Dade; "for somehow I didn't want him to know there was anybody around to hear him." Betty got up quickly and went out on the porch.

She stood there, looking out into the darkness for a long, long time, and presently Dade grew tired of waiting for her and went to his room..