"Oh, well, it can't be helped," she said. "I'll stay home this winter, of course. I can do that much to help, anyway."
"You will do nothing of the sort," her brother declared.
"But——"
"I will find the money. You will finish what you have begun, and that is all there is to it."
"I won't——"
"You will!" Angus said in a voice his sister had never heard before. "I say you will. You have a right to your education, and you shall have it. If I cannot give it to you, I am no man at all!"
CHAPTER XIII
MAINLY ABOUT CHETWOOD
When Angus came to investigate the damage wrought by the hail, he found it very complete. There would be no grain to thresh. It turned out that his had been the only ranch to suffer, the swath of the storm having missed his neighbors. It seemed the climax of the bad luck which had attended that twenty-four hours.