Chapter 6Byron Towers had never been out West before and so didn't have any idea of the lay of the land. He was a man driven to do what he was doing by his own impulses, and he hadn't really stopped to think things through. Not that he would have been capable of doing so right then if he'd tried, because he was too cut up about what had happened to Kate.
Tarnation if it hadn't been bad enough having her marry that darned Minister and then up sticks and leave with him for Monkford; but he'd always figured he would be able to win her back in the end. Another man might not have shared Byron's unfaltering confidence, especially had they known how deeply and truly Kate had loved her husband – and how deeply and truly Gene Sherrin had loved her right back; but love is blind, as they say, and so
