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Barb was so incensed he could only keep his raised finger pointed after Van Horn; and as his eyes blazed he shouted through a very fog of throat-scraping: "I will." On the level stretch between the ranch-house and the creek the cowboys staged, after dinner, a Frontier Day show and a Fourth of July celebration combined.
He had headed his cattle down to meet Dave Terril; he and Dave had swung in together and moved still further south to herd in with the boys coming up from that direction; and being within striking distance of the ranch-house, Sandy had ridden there alone. 'I wasn't sure but you might be there, Al, he explained. 'And I wanted to tell you what I saw.
Sundown rode to the Concho gate, dismounted and opened it. Chance ran ahead, leaping up as Corliss came from the ranch-house. "Got them holes plugged in the tank," said Sundown. "Got the engine runnin' ag'in and things is fine. You goin' to put them cattle back on the water-hole range?" "Yes, as soon as Bud can get around again. He's up, but he can't ride yet." "How's Bull?" "Oh, he's all right.
"With Manning there, she's perfectly safe, especially as we've got the whole gang on the run. The ranch-house would be the very last place they'd head for." Almost at once they struck a fresh trail, made by a number of horsemen riding in a bunch, which led diagonally across middle pasture.
They were, after all, only "porch acquaintances." Once only had the party been invited into the inner court for luncheon, and their brief calls to the ranch-house offered little opportunity for the girls to really see Frances' home. They had met her so much in riding costume that, like Pratt Sanderson, they were amazed when she appeared in a pretty house dress.
"We'll be there in a few minutes," Rivers cheerily repeated, but he began to understand her desperate condition. A quarter of an hour later his team drew up before the door of the ranch-house. It seemed deliciously warm in the lee of the long walls. "Well, here we are. Now we'll go in and get warm." "What if Mr. Bailey is there?" she stammered, with stiff lips. "No matter, you must not freeze."
As they approached Sassoon's place, Elpaso, riding ahead, drew up his horse and sat a moment studying the trail and casting an occasional glance in the direction of the ranch-house, which lay under the brow of a hill ahead. When Lefever rode up to him, he saw the story that Elpaso was reading in the roadway.
They rode down into the valley four abreast and across the fields to the ranch-house. Helen seemed a new creature this morning, utterly tantalizing and not a little perverse.
Her second topic for thought was her father's evident expectation that the ranch-house might be attacked. Every stranger was an object of suspicion to him. This did not abate one jot his natural Western hospitality. As mark his open-handed reception of Pratt Sanderson on this evening. They kept open house at the Bar-T ranch.
The April sun shone down upon a slow-rising green knoll that nestled in the lee of the foothills, and seemed to center bright rays upon the long ranch-house, which gleamed snow-white from the level summit.
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