SON OF THE WIND
the young man who had announced himself as wanting to marry his daughter. Carron, who, two weeks ago, would have put the same question to any acquaintance, had been able immediately to give reasons as to why he was wiser than all men. The scholar had shaken his head. "But what is she going to say to your profession?"
Here he had struck a point truly; but Carron had ridden it down. He had snapped his ringers. "O, what difference will that make to her now? She won't have to see anything of it; and besides, she has something else to think of. Why, look at me, think of what I came here for! Think of how I was then, and now look at me."
Rader had done so silently for some seconds. "And you have given up your first idea?" he inquired.
"It doesn't seem worth worrying her about," Carron answered.
"Why need she be worried about it?" Rader had answered with such a peculiar significance that Carron looked at him in astonishment. "The horse," the scholar proceeded, unfolding his meaning, "is only an idea to her, isn't it? She has no desire to possess it. She only wants to see it while it's here. She knows that presently it will disappear,
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