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Updated: June 7, 2025
"This yere gent is a maverick from Missouri what I found wanderin' across the peerarie searchin' fer Yaller Fork, an' he hez bantered me ter a hoss race, I ast him ter come in an' stay overnight, an' eat, an' we'll run ther hosses in ther mornin'." "What horses?" "I'm goin' ter run Hatrack agin' thet magpie mare o' hisn, an' throw in a six-shooter with Hatrack if I lose."
Bud was walking by the side of Stella, whose face showed the disappointment she felt at not being declared at once the winner. It was so evidently a job to steal the race from Hatrack that the leader of the broncho boys was both angry and disgusted. "This is what you get for having anything to do with this mob of gamblers and thieves," he said to Kit, who was standing by his side.
When she went out Gabriella passed the dreadful hatrack of golden-oak in the lower hail; and after a day or two she noticed that it held a collection of soft felt hats, two overcoats of good cut and material, and an assortment of gold-headed walking-sticks, which appeared never to be used.
From the old walnut hatrack, with its white-tipped knobs that stood just inside the front door, Judge Priest picked up a palmleaf fan; and he held the fan slantwise as a shield for his eyes and his bare head against the sun's glare as he went down the porch steps and passed out of his own yard, traversed the empty street and strove with the stubborn gate latch of the little house that faced his own.
The men dispersed after this speech, which closed with a ringing cheer from the broncho boys and the cow-punchers and other friends of Hatrack. But Norris could not be found. He and the horse and the jockey had disappeared. Ted rounded the boys up, and all were present except Kit. "Where's Kit?" he asked. "Don't know," said Bud. "He was around here a few minutes ago. Reckon he's somewhere about."
Charles Wilkinson, returning from the Hurds' to his boarding house, opened the front door with his latch key and stepped into the dingy hall. On a small table beside the hatrack lay the boarders' mail. He picked out three envelopes addressed to him, walked upstairs, and entered his room. Seating himself in the only comfortable chair the apartment afforded, he gloomily regarded the three missives.
That's the word he has always been sent away with. Stick tight, an' let him go. Don't forget the word 'Vamose!" Hatrack and Magpie were now brought up to the starting point. The boy who traveled with old man Norris was on the back of the latter horse, sitting in a regular jockey's saddle and stripped of all superfluous clothing. He was the typical jockey now.
"If yer laughin' at ther idea o' Hatrack beatin' ther magpie hoss, don't yer do it, fer thet's showin' ignerance o' hossflesh, an' I thought yer wuz too well brought up at Moon Valley ter think thet pretty spots on a hoss hez anythin' ter do with his ability ter make a race er hold a cow."
Jadwin," she said. "She said you was to make yourself at home, and she'd be back by noon." Laura nodded, and standing before the hatrack in the hall, took off her hat and gloves, and folded her veil into her purse. The house was old-fashioned, very homelike and spacious, cool, with broad halls and wide windows.
They saw only one rider, and I suppose they thought that if they were pursued at all it would be by several men, and they were confident that with their horses they could run away from anything we had except Hatrack." "It's a wonder they didn't light out quick." "I think they figured to save their horses until they were sure they were being followed." "Then what happened?"
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