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The cowboys resting in the shade of the bunk-house rose to their feet, sauntered over and surrounded Old Heck and the Ramblin' Kid, commenting meanwhile, frankly and caustically, on the fagged condition of the broncho Skinny was on: "Must 'a' been scared, the way you run that horse," Parker, range foreman of the Quarter Circle KT, a heavy-built, sandy-complexioned man in the forties, remarked witheringly to Skinny as the cow-puncher climbed from the saddle and slid to the ground.
Trailing the filly, the Ramblin' Kid forced her back toward the Cimarron, into its raging flood, multiplied a hundredfold by the torrential rain of the night; side by side she and Captain Jack swam the stream, and in the gray dawn, while the Quarter Circle KT still slept, he turned the mare and Captain Jack into the circular corral.
"Yes," Chuck said, evidently trying to relieve the embarrassment of Old Heck, Parker and Skinny who looked daggers at Bert when he spoke of an agreement, "Parker and Old Heck was to take turn about " "Bert meant," Parker interrupted hastily, " he meant they they had to agree not to loaf in this room before Old Heck would give them jobs on the Quarter Circle KT!"
Perhaps it was mental telepathy, thought vibration, subconscious soul communication or a mere coincident, that caused Chuck, far out on the open range, to speak the thing Old Heck, sitting at supper with Carolyn June, Ophelia and Skinny, at the Quarter Circle KT was thinking.
Skinny Rawlins, at an increase of ten dollars a month on his wage, protestingly, was elected official love-maker to Carolyn June Dixon, Old Heck's niece, speeding unsuspectingly toward the Quarter Circle KT, and Old Heck and Parker between them were to divide the affections of Ophelia Cobb, widow and chaperon.
Uncle Josiah will have a fit. Does Parker know?" "Yes," the widow answered, her eyes twinkling, as she looked at the sweating foreman of the Quarter Circle KT. "I told him all about it and he is going to give us his moral support." "Where is Skinny?" Parker interrupted hastily, looking more uneasy and foolish than ever; "why ain't he here?" Carolyn June told of the happenings of the morning.
This, the Ramblin' Kid believed, was his last long look at the Quarter Circle KT. He would ride down to the circular corral, turn out the Gold Dust maverick give her again to the range and freedom and while the unconscious sleepers at the ranch dreamed he would pass on, silently, toward the south and Mexico should throw about him her black arms of mystery!
The long Parliament would give Charles the Second no other title than King of Scots. I also wrote to Sir Edward Walker, Kt. Garter King at Arms in 1659, he then being in Holland Tu, Dominusque vester videbitis Angliam, infra duos annos. For in 1662, his moon came by direction to the body of the sun. But he came in upon the ascendant directed unto the trine of Sol and antiscion of Jupiter.
The racing feud between the Quarter Circle KT and the Y-Bar and the thousands of dollars Old Heck and Dorsey were known to have bet on their respective favorites acted as tinder on the flame of public interest in the big event. Thunderbolt had a great reputation. Last year, and the year before, he had mastered the field of runners put against him.
Carolyn June colored the least bit, paused a moment before she replied, then said rather stiffly: "He yes, he is probably having more fun watching us being 'officially' made love to than any other one of the entire bunch. The Ramblin' Kid will have to take his medicine along with the rest! Every man-thing on the Quarter Circle KT eliminating Sing Pete from that classification is my meat!"
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