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She was staring straight ahead of her, into the vista above her pinto's ears, and had Thode looked at her he would have seen a quick flush mantle her face, but he was occupied by his own problem. "You are different, you know, from the people about here; or anywhere else for that matter, Billie. I I've never met a girl like you, so brave and true and wonderful!
Lie low on the pinto's neck, with your haid on the off side. That's right. Let him out." A mile and a half farther up the road Mac reined in, and made the Indian peace-sign. Two dejected figures came over the hill and resolved themselves into punchers of the Lazy D. Each of them trailed a rifle by his side. "You're a fine pair of ring-tailed snorters, ain't y'u?" jeered the foreman.
Well, somehow I don't think Pinto will go," he spoke deliberately. "I don't think Pinto will go." "It is too dangerous for you to stop him " began Crewe. "I shall not try to stop him," said the other; "there's somebody besides myself on Pinto's track, and that somebody is going to pull him down." "But why don't you escape, colonel?" she urged. "There is the aeroplane waiting at Bromley.
Pancho came riding along and took Tita and the white hen up on Pinto's back with him. Tonio rode Tonto and carried the rooster. Tita had to put the cat down to get up on the horse, and when Tonio's dog saw her he barked at her, and she ran just as fast as she could and got to the cabin and up on the roof out of reach.
In another minute he had the hobble off Paddy and had swung me up on that astonished pinto's back. The next minute he himself was on Maid Marian, poking one end of the long rein into my hand and telling me to keep up with him. We rode like mad. I scarcely understood what it meant, at the time, but I at least kept up with him.
If I don't take your bridle off, you'll stand there and starve to death, like a good many fool folks I've heard of. You've got to eat, Pinto." Curly arose and with a meditative finger traced the outlines of the continental maps displayed on Pinto's parti-colored flanks. That cynical beast, with small warning, kicked at him viciously.
Sundown stood in his stirrups and gazed ahead. The wide mesas glowing in the sun, the sense of illimitable freedom, the keen, odorless air wrought him to a pitch of inspiration. He would, just over the next rise, draw rein and woo his muse. But the next rise and the next swept beneath the pinto's rhythmic hoofs. The poetry of motion swayed his soul. He was enjoying himself.
She bore her pain without a groan, submitted to the imprisonment which was harder than pain with angelic patience. Joe, The Duke and I carried out our instructions with careful exactness to the letter. She never doubted, and we never let her doubt but that in a few weeks she would be on the pinto's back again and after the cattle.
We could easily persuade the man that Pinto had sent us." He shook his head. "You take your own advice," he said, "and clear out to-night. Get her away, Crewe. Don't worry about the police. You've got twenty-four hours in hand. This is Pinto's night," he said between his teeth. "Pinto the dirty hound!" Slowly they paced the street together in silence. When they came to the end the colonel turned.
I built two stout traps for Pinto's benefit, and day after day I dragged bait around and through the manzanita thickets on the ridge and over all his trails, and sometimes I found tracks so fresh that I was satisfied he had heard me coming and had turned aside.
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