From this on they had a royal good time. Rose grew happier than she had been for weeks. There was something strangely masterful about this woman in spite of her sweet smile and soft gray eyes.
When the conductor came down the aisle again she met his eye with a keen, stern glance.
"Young man, I shall have you discharged from this road."
The astonished cur took her card, and when he read the name of a famous woman lawyer of Milwaukee his face fell.
"I didn't mean any harm."
"I know better. I shall see Mr. Millet, and see that he makes an example of you."
Rose was awed by her calm and commanding voice.
"It has been our boast that our girls could travel from east to west in our broad land, and be safe from insult, and I'm not going to let such a thing pass."
She returned to her grave sweet mood presently, and began to talk of other things.
As they neared the town where they were to part company, the elder woman said: