"I guess I've always loved you," murmured Kate, "I must have. I--I hate myself when I think of--of Blakely. I found out what he was while he was lying here wounded. He was delirious and he spoke of a woman, another man's wife, named Marie, down on the Sweetwater. Oh, it was awful--what he said. I can't tell you. It--it woke me up. Then I knew what I had lost when you left the ranch. You'll never leave me again, will you?"
It was a large wedding for the Lazy River country.
Scotty Mackenzie privately informed Jack Richie that he didn't know, the marriage might turn out all right, but Kate was such a good-looker, and he'd always mistrusted good-lookers himself.
Scotty's pessimism was pardonable. He had lost a good employee, while Mr. Saltoun was the gainer by an excellent range-boss.
End of Project Gutenberg's Paradise Bend, by William Patterson White