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"He agreed to a twenty-four hours' truce not to make another break in that time," the cowman answered as he swept their few dishes into the cupboard. Bennet's lip curled under his moustache. "And you believe him, eh?" There was a suggestion of tartness in the cowman's prompt "Sure! He rode behind me all the way back, on his word not to attempt anything, and kept it.
To begin with she had to face that impertinent upstart of a Nell Raddish, all tricked out in a black dress and white apron and cap and collar and cuffs, and she only a cowman's daughter with a face like a plum, and no sense or notions at all till she came to Farthing, since when, as everyone knew, her skirts had grown shorter and her nose whiter and her hair frizzier and her ways more knowing.
"How's the feed?" came the inevitable cowman's question. "Pore, pore," replied the mountaineer. "Ain't never seen it so short. My cattle's pore." "Well, you're overstocked; that's what's the matter," spoke up some one boldly. George Pollock turned his face toward this voice. "Don't you suppose I know it?" he demanded. "There's a thousand head too many on my range alone.
The Texan rested an arm upon the bar and leaned forward confidentially. "Fatty," he drawled, "you're a liar." The other noted the hand that rested lightly upon the cowman's hip near the ivory butt of the six-gun that protruded from its holster, and took no offence. His customer continued: "They ain't no such horse an' if they was, you couldn't own him.
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