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Updated: May 15, 2025
He was in the mood to live up to the Lorrigan reputation when he swung off the train at Jumpoff, but no man crossed his trail. So Lance carried with him the full measure of his rage against Mary Hope and the Devil's Tooth, when he rode out of Jumpoff on a lean-flanked black horse that rolled a wicked eye back at the rider and carried his head high, looking for trouble along the trail.
A man moved forward out of the gloom to meet her. "Is it you, Pablo?" A slender youth, lean-flanked and broad-shouldered, her visitor turned out to be. His outstretched hands went forward swiftly to meet hers. "Juanita, light of my life?" he cried softly. "Corazon mia!" She submitted with a little reluctant protest to his caress. "I have but a minute, Pablo.
The man in the scarlet jacket wasted nothing. There was about him no superfluity of build, of gesture, of voice. Beneath the close-fitting uniform the muscles rippled and played when he moved. His shoulders and arms were those of a college oarsman. Lean-flanked and clean-limbed, he was in the hey-day of a splendid youth.
The trim, lean-flanked figure and close-cropped, curly head she recognized at once with quickened pulse. When Winthrop Beresford came into her neighborhood, Jessie McRae's cheek always flew a flag of greeting. A squaw came up to the young soldier and offered innocently her face for a kiss. Beresford knew the tribal custom.
At each of them he said, "Have another," and followed his own advice to show good faith. On one of these voyages from port to port the bad man from Chicito Cañon sighted a tall, lean-flanked, long-legged brown man. He was crossing the street so that the party came face to face with him at the apex of a right angle.
On the level plain was a concourse of thousands, horsemen, who sat their lean-flanked Marwari or Cabul horses as though they waited to swing into a parade, the march past. The sowars Barlow had seen in the town were in front of him, riding four abreast, and at a command from their leader, opened up and formed a scimitar-shaped band, their horses' noses toward the river.
He knew all these people, and most of them, the young women at least, admired Tunis; but he was too self-centered and busied with his own thoughts and affairs to comprehend this. At the corner of one of the houses a girl stood a tall, lean-flanked, but deep-bosomed creature, as graceful as a well-grown sapling.
What's your name?" he cried to one of the hands, a lean-flanked, clean-built fellow from some far western island, and of a darkness almost approaching to the African. "Sally Day," replied the man. "Devil it is," said the captain, "Didn't know we had ladies on board. Well, Sally, oblige me by hauling down that rag there. I'll do the same for you another time."
What's YOUR name? he cried to one of the hands, a lean-flanked, clean-built fellow from some far western island, and of a darkness almost approaching to the African. 'Sally Day, replied the man. 'Devil it is, said the captain. 'Didn't know we had ladies on board. Well, Sally, oblige me by hauling down that rag there.
Nobody envied that broad-shouldered, lean-flanked, bright-eyed young fellow his successes. Companions shared his triumphs, lecturers and professors came down from their high pedestals of dignity to help him on. When he obtained his London University diploma with honours for a thesis of exceptional merit, he had already held the post of principal anæsthetist at St. Stephen's Hospital for a year.
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