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Updated: May 11, 2025
No document was required to substantiate his allegiance to his new master, nor his new master's title to ownership. Despite genealogy, each was in his way a thoroughbred. The strenuous days of the round-up were over. Bands of riders departed for their distant ranches leaving a few of their number to ride line and incidentally to keep a vigilant eye On the sheep-camps.
"Been hunting?" queried the ranger, still with cheery, polite interest. "Oh no; just visiting one of my sheep-camps." Cavanagh's voice was a little less suave. "Not on this creek," he declared. "I moved your herder last week." He walked forward. "That's a heavy load for a short trip to a sheep-camp." He put his hand on the pack.
"That's what I'm wonderin', lady. And say, would you be so kind as to tell me which way is north?" Despite her solicitude for the recumbent Sundown, Eleanor Loring laughed. "You are in one of the sheep-camps. I'm Eleanor Loring." "Sheep-camp? Gee Gosh! Did you stop me?" "Yes. I was just riding into camp when you er arrived. I headed the steer back and Fernando cut the rope." "Thanks, miss.
He wanted some ammunition to shoot up sheep-camps with, but bein' a little touched, as you might say, he thought I might hold out on 'im, so he goes at me like this: 'Jeff, he says, 'I've took to huntin' lions for the bounty now me and the hounds and I want to git some thirty-thirtys. But after I'd give him all I could spare he goes on to explain how the sheep, not satisfied with eatin' 'im out of house and home, had gone and tolled all the lions away after 'em so, of course, he'll have to foller along, too.
He was equipped with a better horse, a rope, quirt, slicker, and instructions to cover daily a strip of territory between the Concho and the sheep-camps. He became in fact an itinerant patrol, his mere physical presence on the line being all that was required of him. It was the Señora Loring who drove to the Concho one morning and was welcomed by Corliss to whom she gave the little sack of gold.
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