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He works different. "Now, while he is figurin', you just git up easy and step out and slip over to the barn and saddle up Joshua. I'm goin' to need him. Take the tie-rope off Filaree and leave him loose in his stall. Just say 'Adios' to me when you git up, like you was goin' back to the hotel. And if you'll settle what we owe " "That's all right. But my feet aren't cold, yet."

Anyway, Playmate, I says, 'we'll take a chance on Jerkline Jo. And that's what me and Playmate did. "I hunted up the owners o' the land when I gets to Los Angeles, and makes 'em an offer on twelve thousan' acres comprisin' the entire tract known as Paloma Rancho, an ancient Spanish grant. Good for nothin', I'd been told, but to run cows on in winter, when the filaree and bunch grass are green.

Almost every one in Arizona knew that Cheyenne had been married and had separated from his wife. "That would be a pretty good gun to git hoss-thieves with," asserted the boy, still thinking of the Luger. "What do you know about hoss-thieves?" queried Cheyenne. "You think I didn't see you was ridin' different hosses!" said Jimmy. "Mebby you think I don't know where Josh and Filaree are."

How beautiful the gold and crimson flowers looked dotted over the hills and the flat like a brilliant carpet with its sage-green background and occasional dash of deeper green where patches of "filaree" covered the sandy soil!

From their noon camp they rode into the timber and from the timber into a mountain meadow, knee-deep with lush grass. There was no visible trail across the meadow but the horses seemed to know which way to go. After crossing the meadow, Filaree, leading the cavalcade, turned and took a steep trail down the side of a hidden cañon, a mighty chasm, rock-walled and somber.