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In the meanwhile it was in one respect gratifying to feel that she could be displeased at anything he might think or do. "I'm not quite sure I see the drift of that," he said. "You would be content to continue a ranch-hand indefinitely?" "Why not?" Nasmyth asked, with a smile.
Because of his ragged appearance his name had been picked up by the crowd and sent drifting about the field; now they called on him loudly. For every rancher and every ranch-hand in Glosterville was summoning Alcatraz to vindicate the range-stock against the long-legged mares which had been imported from the East for the sole purpose of shaming the native products.
He felt an almost uncontrollable desire to comfort her, and to take her cares upon himself, but that was out of the question, since he was merely a ranch-hand, a Bush-chopper, who owed even the food he ate and the clothes he wore to her.
Ida, watching him, became conscious of a sense of repulsion and indignation. This arrogant, indulgent, useless man had, it seemed, not the manners of a western ranch-hand. He accepted a cup of tea from Mrs.
He had been active in the great strike eight years ago, and had been black-listed, his four sons with him. The sons were scattered now to the four parts of the world, but the father had stayed nearby, working as a ranch-hand and railroad labourer, until a couple of years ago, during a rush season, he had got a chance to come back into the mines. He was old, old, declared Mary must be sixty.
"Now," she said, "I would like to hear what you are going to do." The man made a little rueful gesture. "I don't know. Chop trees again for some rancher, most probably in fact, I was wondering whether you would have me back as a ranch-hand." "Ah!" cried the girl sharply, while a trace of hardness crept into her eyes, "that is very much what I expected.
"You know that street where we seen the show? Well, if you keep right on you'll come to the Square and the express company is right on the corner." "All right, Ed. But what you goin' to do?" "I'm goin' to git a soogun to-morrow mornin', roll my stuff and head for the border, afoot. I'm a ranch-hand lookin' for work. I know where I kin get acrost the river.
He still took her wage, he was still a Blue Lake ranch-hand, he still owed her his loyalty, though it came from a sore heart.
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