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Updated: May 22, 2025
You didn't happen to pass one on the way, I suppose?" "No, I didn't. What ranch were y'u going to, ma'am? "Miss Messiter's the Lazy D." A suspicion began to penetrate the foreman's brain. "Y'u ain't Miss Darling?" "What makes you so sure I'm not?" she asked, tilting her dimpled chin toward him aggressively. "Y'u're too young," he protested, helplessly.
"She got one glimpse of that red haid of Tex and the pore lady's took to the sage," explained Yorky. "And him scrubbed so shiny fust time since Christmas before the big blizzard," sighed Doc Rogers. "Shucks! She ain't scared of no sawed-off, hammered-down runt like Texas, No, siree! Miss Messiter's on the absent list 'cause she's afraid she cayn't resist the blandishments of Soapy.
It had been Helen Messiter's daily custom either to take a ride on her pony or a spin in her motor car, but since Bannister had been quartered at the Lazy D her time had been so fully occupied that she had given this up for the present. The arrival of Nora Darling, however, took so much work off her hands that she began to continue her rides and drives.
Helen turned fiercely on her guest. "Why did you make me insist on your staying? As if I want you here, as if " She stopped, choking with anger; presently flamed out, "I hate you," and ran from the room to hide herself alone with her tears and her shame. The scene on which Helen Messiter's eyes rested that mellow Fourth of July was vivid enough to have interested a far more jaded mind than hers.
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