Still he was silent, and she demanded:

“Aren’t you surprised?”

She looked crestfallen, so he asked obligingly:

“Where did all of this happen?”

“In a draw a couple of miles this side of Prouty, where I found the horses. They had gone there to get out of the wind and it was by only a chance that I rode down into it.

“She was in the bottom, huddled against a rock, and didn’t see me until I was nearly on her. I thought she was sick—she looked terrible.”

“And was she?”

“No—she was worried.”

“Naturally. Any woman would be who married Toomey.”

“About money.”