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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: that a man of spirit, a gentleman by training at least, would let
himself lie under the odium of such a charge if he were not
guilty? Her tangled thoughts fought this profitless conflict for
days. Nor could she dismiss it from her mind. Even after he began
to mend she was still on the rack. For in some snatch of good
talk, when the fine quality of the man seemed to glow in his
face, poignant remembrance would stab her with recollection of
the difference between what he was and what he seemed to be.
One of the things that had been a continual surprise to Helen was
the short time required by these deep-cheated and clean-blooded
Westerners to recover from apparently serious wounds. It was
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