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"I'm going to give myself up and I'm going to pinch thee too!" If Crotin had turned the handle of the old-fashioned telephone, if he had continued in his resolution, if he had shown no sign of doubt, a different story might have been told. But with his hand raised, he hesitated, and Pinto clinched his argument. "Why have all that trouble?" he said.
"Now, Boyar, and some others of us, will never quite understand what that means." And with rein and voice he lifted the pinto Rally to a lope. At the crossroads in the valley stood the local jail, or "coop," as it was more descriptively called. Unpainted, isolated, its solitary ugliness lacked even the squalid dignity commonly associated with the word "jail."
Once they were gone, Helen May surrendered weakly to one fear, to the extent that she let Vic take the carbine and the pinto and ride over to where she had left Pat and the goats, for the simple reason that she dreaded to face alone that much maligned dog.
That truth slowly sank in upon the mind of the fugitive as he put the game little cattle pony into his best stride. He tried the pinto in the level going. He tried him in the rough.
"So there we was," went on Curly, with another sigh, "all Socorro sayin' bright and cheerful things to the Bar T, and us plumb broke, and far, far from home. "We roped Pinto, and led him home behind the wagon, forty miles over the sand, by the soft, silver light of the moon.
He saw an iron-gray with white mane and tail sweeping to the ground; and a fiery black, wilder than any other beast he had ever seen; and a pinto as wonderfully painted as the little lambs; and, most striking of all, a pure, cream-colored mustang with grace and fine lines and beautiful mane and tail, and, strange to see, eyes as blue as azure.
"Now, when we all heard Doc say them words we knowed he was shore scientific, and we come up clost while the examination was progressin'. "'Most extraordinary, says Doc, feelin' some more. 'Now, here is a distant luxation in the lumber regions. He talked like Pinto had a wooden leg. "'I should diagnose great cerebral excitation, along with pernounced ocular hesitation, says Doc at last.
"Two!" screamed Pan, wild with joy. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" In due time the new horses arrived at the Smith homestead. Their names were Pelter and Pilldarlick. Pelter was a pinto, snappy and pretty, though he had a wicked eye. Pilldarlick was not showy, but he was small and strong, easy gaited and gentle.
I don't believe Dan Anderson would hesertate one minute to sign this if he saw it." "They sign it with their hearts," said Willie, vaguely. "They always do." "He signs it with his heart," said Tom Osby, "and it goes!" He folded the paper and handed it to Curly. "Saddle up that Pinto horse, Curly, if you can," said he, "and make the run to Sky Top as fast as God'll let you.
And the to-morrows have come and gone as did those Spanish lovers, riding up through the sunshine on their silver-bitted pinto ponies and riding out at dusk with tinkling spur-chains into that long to-morrow that has shrouded the ancient plaza in listless dreams. Mexicans in black sombreros and blue overalls still prowl from cantina to cantina, but the gay vaquero and his señorita are no more.
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