“All! All what?”
“Where I saw you first, and—”
“No—no, I can’t do that,” she said, shrinking back. “Joe, I’ve
tried often to think of it—of telling him, but I never could. He
will have to trust or distrust me, but I can’t tell him.”
“I know how you feel; but you wrong yourself. Any one would give
you credit instead of blaming you—don’t you ever think of that? And
then—then, ’Tana, I tried to tell him down at the Ferry, because I
thought you were in some game against him. I managed to tell him
you were Holly’s partner, but hadn’t got any farther when the
paralysis caught me. I hadn’t time to tell him that Holly was your
father, and that he made you go where he said; or that you dressed
as a boy and was called ’Monte,’ because that disguise was the only
safety possible for you i
