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Updated: June 10, 2025
Clanton drew up abruptly. He had no desire to meet now any strangers whose intentions had not been announced. Swiftly, with a pantherish smoothness of motion, he slid from the cowpony and moved to the edge of a bluff that looked down into the arroyo below. He crept forward and peered through a clump of cactus growing at the edge of the escarpment. The camp-fire was at the very foot of the bluff.
Free of limb, as yet unconscious of sex, she had the look of a splendid boy. The descending sun was in her sparkling hair, on the lank, undulating grace of her changing lines. Active as a cat though it was, the cowpony found the steep pass with its loose rubble hard going. Melissy took the climb much easier.
His eye was too keen in the calculation of distances and relative speeds not to realize that the cowpony would beat him to the goal, yet he kept up his furious pace even when Perris had checked his horse to a trot.
"Have you any objections to me camping with you here?" Not a cowpuncher within five hundred miles but would be glad of such redoubted company. They went back to Calder's horse. "We can start for my clearing," said Dan. "Bart'll bring the hoss. Fetch him in." The wolf took the dangling bridle reins and led on the cowpony.
When Bob came to earth he found himself clumping down the river road miles from town. He turned and walked back to Bear Cat. His cowpony was at the corral and he was due at the ranch by night. Young Dillon's thoughts had been so full of June and his relation to her that it was with a shock of surprise he saw Jake Houck swing out from the hotel porch and bar the way.
His course across country had been so accurate that he hit the herd at the point without deflecting. An old Texan drew up, changed his weight on the saddle to rest himself, and hailed the youngster. "Goin' somewheres, kid, or just ridin'?" he asked genially. "Just takin' my hawss out for a jaunt so's he won't get hog-fat," grinned the boy. The Texan chewed tobacco placidly and eyed the cowpony.
"Powder River bucked after he was roped an' tried to break away. The other horse, like any good cowpony does, leaned back on the rope an' dug a toe-hold." "Where's Houck going?" "Brown's Park likely, from the way they're headed." "What'll we do?" "Why, drap in on them to-night kinda casual an' say 'Much obliged for roundin' up our stray bronc for us." This programme did not appeal to Bob.
Already the bay was beginning to feel the run, and Marianne reluctantly drew down to the long lope which is the favorite gait of the cowpony. At this pace she rocked on over mile after mile of desert through the moonhaze, but never a token of the cowpunchers came on her. Twice she was on the verge of turning back; twice she shook her head and urged the mare on again.
Dud pulled up, a hundred yards away. Out of the bushes braves poured like buzzing bees. The dismounted man would be cut off. Hollister wheeled his cowpony in its tracks and went back. He slipped a foot from the stirrup and held it out as a foot-rest for Reeves. The Utes whooped as they came on. The firing was very heavy.
Yet the older man noticed that his white lips could scarcely find strength to make the indomitable boast. Very gently Billie lifted the wounded man and put him on the back of the cowpony. He held him there and guided the animal through the sand to the bend. Clanton hung on with clenched teeth, calling on the last ounce of power in his exhausted body with his strong will.
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