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"Plain!My herds to wander in the sage--to be stolen! Jane Withersteen a poor woht low and her spirit broken!Why, Judkins, it's plain enough"
"Miss Withersteen, let ather, an' hold the white herd It's on the slope now, not ten miles out--three thousand head, an' all steers They're wild, an' likely to staht with them, en' try to hold them"
"Judkins, I'll reward you some day for your service, unless all is taken froive you pick of ht But--do not shed blood for my cattle nor heedlessly risk your lives"
Jane Withersteen rushed to the silence and seclusion of her roo of her wrath
She went stone-blind in the fury of a passion that had never before showed its power Lying upon her bed, sightless, voiceless, she was a writhing, living flame And she tossed there while her fury burned and burned, and finally burned itself out
Then, weak and spent, she lay thinking, not of the oppression that would break her, but of this new revelation of self Until the last few days there had been little in her life to rouse passions Her forefathers had been Vikings, savage chieftains who bore no cross and brooked no hindrance to their will Her father had inherited that te before fire on the slope, his people fled froes
Jane Withersteen realized that the spirit of wrath and war had lain dormant in her She shrank fro in man or woman that she scorned above all scorn, and which she could not forgive, was hate Hate headed a flaht to hell All in a flash, beyond her control there had been in her a birth of fiery hate And the radation was a minister of God's word, an Elder of her church, the counselor of her beloved Bishop
The loss of herds and ranges, even of Aer concerned Jane Withersteen, she faced the forehtiest problem--the salvation of her soul
She knelt by her bedside and prayed; she prayed as she had never prayed in all her life--prayed to be forgiven for her sin to be immune froh she could not love him as a man; to do her duty by her church and people and those dependent upon her bounty; to hold reverence of God and womanhood inviolate