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Updated: May 24, 2025
"I must see the minister's wife," she said, as Old Heck steered the Clagstone "Six" up the grade that led out to the bench and to Eagle Butte, " it is very important" Old Heck murmured assent and drove silently on. Probably she was going to start a "Movement" or something to-day! To-morrow, Parker would be back. It sure did put a man in a dickens of a fix!
They had just returned to the Quarter Circle KT, unsaddled their horses, turned them into the pasture, gone to the house and stopped a moment on the front porch to watch the glow in the west the sun was dipping into a thundercap over the Costejo Mountains when the Clagstone "Six" rolled down the grade and up to the string of poplars before the house. "Gee, we thought you two had eloped!"
Ophelia threw back! her head, while a ripple of laughter trilled out above the purr of the Clagstone "Six."
As they passed through the entrance to the track and the inside field which lay beyond Chuck and the Ramblin' Kid rode within a few feet of the Clagstone "Six," which was parked near the east end of the grandstand. Old Heck and Ophelia were in the front seat of the car watching the riders assemble for the parade.
The instant Old Heck and Parker, in the Clagstone "Six," started for Eagle Butte and the cowboys disappeared down the lane in the direction of the big pasture, Skinny struggled into the white shirt. He planned to try its effect on Carolyn June while the others were away. If it did not produce results he would slip back to the bunk-house before they returned and change again to his normal dress.
Perhaps the widow would forget his impetuous proposal or fall in love with Old Heck. Old Heck, his heart filled with a queer mixture of elation and uncertainty with a sort of joy and sinking sensation all at once agreed to Parker's suggestion. Parker rode into Eagle Butte with the cowboys. Old Heck, Ophelia, Skinny and Carolyn June went in the Clagstone "Six."
She flushed also. "That's personal, my dear," she answered, "and rather abrupt!" Parker went out to put the Clagstone "Six" in the garage. "Carolyn June," Ophelia said when they were alone, "I have made a discovery " "It is?" questioningly. "That western Texas is the 'quickest' country in the world!" the widow answered.
On Friday the quartette went to Eagle Butte, Old Heck driving, with Ophelia beside him, and Carolyn June and Skinny in the rear seat of the Clagstone "Six." It was on this trip, while Ophelia and Carolyn June were in the Golden Rule doing some shopping, that Old Heck and Skinny strolled into the Elite Amusement Parlor.
Two minutes later the cloud of dust trailed a rakish, trim-lined, high-powered, purring Clagstone "Six" to a stop in front of the Occidental Hotel and Old Heck and Skinny Rawlins climbed glumly and stiffly from the front seat, after the thirty-minute, twenty-mile run from the Quarter Circle KT. Old Heck had his peculiarities. One of them was insistence for the best absolutely or nothing.
Old Heck drove in with the Clagstone "Six." Ophelia and Carolyn June came with him. Skinny met them when Old Heck stopped the in front of the Occidental Hotel. He told them, while they still sat in the automobile, of the fight and the escape of the Ramblin' Kid. "A drunken brawl!" Carolyn June thought, a wave of disgust sweeping over her.
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