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leave the cabin of her own accord, as she had been permitted to do

back in Cabin Gulch; and Joan retorted that there she had made him a

promise not to run ahich promise she now took back That

prolad to be honest with Kells He

gazed at her somberly

"You'll be worse off it you do--and I'll be better off," he said

And then as an afterthought he added: "Gulden ht not think you--a

white elephant on his hands!Remember his way, the cave and the

rope!"

So, instinctively or cruelly he chose the right na terror into Joan's soul