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Updated: June 26, 2025
"If you're goin' our way, colonel's daughter," said Tom, gathering up his bridle-reins, "we'll be proud to ride along with you." Frances was looking at the dust-cloud that rose behind Macdonald. He was no longer in sight. "Where has he gone?" she inquired, her suspicion growing every moment.
Canby in advance of Wallie was a little ahead of the steer, slapping at it with his bridle-reins, Wallie behind had been crowding its shoulder. But nothing could divert it from its purpose. Helene was about to turn her head away when she saw Wallie lay the reins on his horse's neck and lean from the saddle. His purpose flashed through Helene's mind instantly.
On the other was a precipitous drop into a cañon of unknown depth. "Get down," ordered Lynch, swinging out of his saddle. As she slid to the ground he handed her his bridle-reins. "Take the horses a ways back an' hold 'em," he told her curtly. "An' remember this: Not a peep out of yuh, or it'll be yore last.
Mann, the miller out of sight and out of mind, stepped lightly with Horace, the lawyer, the sober black bag doubled up and stored in the pocket of his coat, its handles dangling like bridle-reins. June alone was left unpaired, in company with the doctor and Miss Horton, who asserted that they did not dance.
And when he came near the wide, closed door of the barn, in front of which showed indistinctly the forms of a large and a small animal, he leaped forward with a welcoming bark that was answered by another from a dog lying in the deep shadow against the door. For there stood the blind black colt and the pinto with the bridle-reins still swinging across her neck.
Kenneth was silent for many minutes after they had left the camp of the Italians. He was a Western man only by adoption; of Anglo-Saxon blood, and so unable to condone the Latin's disregard for the sacredness of human life. "That was simply terrible, Ford," he said finally, and his voice was still in sympathy with the shaking hand that held the bridle-reins. "Will nothing be done?"
It was Dave Tolliver on horseback, and Dave's right hand had kept hold of his bridle-reins. "Hold on!" he said, lifting the other with a wide gesture of peace. "I want to talk with you a bit." Still Hale watched him closely as he swung from his horse. "Come in won't you?" The mountaineer hitched his horse and slouched within the gate. "Have a seat." Dave dropped to the steps.
Even as improvident a cowpuncher as Johnny Croft had been likes to own a "private" horse, one that is his own and can be ridden when and where the owner chooses. Lite turned and went over to it, caught it by the dragging bridle-reins, and led it into an empty stall.
The girl's eyes, the color of sea-water in the sun, were leveled toward the distant hills across the San Fernando Valley. From her fingers dangled the long bridle-reins. Her lips were gently parted. Her gaze was the gaze of one who dreams in the daylight. And close in the hidden meadow crouched Romance, Romance ragged, unkempt, jocular.... Boyar first scented the wood-smoke.
Suddenly the dragoman wheeled and made demoniac signs. Coleman half-turned to survey the main body, and then paid his attention swiftly to the front. The white road sped to the top of a hill where it seemed to make a rotund swing into oblivion. The top of the curve was framed in foliage, and therein was a horseman. He had his carbine slanted on his thigh, and his bridle-reins taut.
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