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Updated: June 25, 2025
"A wide-awake cowman, in this upper country, always buys these southern horses a year in advance of when he needs them. Next year you'll be running a shipping outfit, mounting a dozen men, sending others on fall round-ups, and if you buy your horses now, you'll have them in the pink of condition then.
"What a narrow escape!" exclaimed Frank, after the clamor had in some measure died away again. "Oh! I should say it was," echoed Bob, feeling quite weak as he realized what must have happened to them had they not gotten away in time. "How about your leg, Joe; can you walk?" asked Frank, turning to the cowman, who was scrambling to his feet close by. "Seems like I can, Senor Frank.
"You are welcome," replied Jack, slipping the string over his head and passing the instrument to him. The cowman sauntered off, taking the same direction as before. His first wish was to learn whether he was still under surveillance. So far as he could determine the watcher had grown weary and withdrawn, though there could be no certainty that he was not in the neighborhood.
"Yes, I I promised Miss Chuckie to try to forget the past. But when I think of what I lost, all because of him " "So-o!" considered the cowman. "Maybe there's more in what Kid says than I thought. He's been cross-questioning Blake all day. You know how little Kid is given to gab. But from the time we started off he kept after Blake like he was cutting out steers at the round-up."
Now a girl can't show her true colors like the girl's brother did, but get her in the harness once, and then she'll show you the white of her eye, balk, and possibly kick over the wagon tongue. No, I believe in the breed blood'll tell." "I worked for a cowman once," said Bull, irrelevantly, "and they told it on him that he lost twenty thousand dollars the night he was married." "How, gambling?"
Again the travelers were met with serious regrets, as no one would be at camp that night, business calling the owner away; he was just starting then. The cowman led out his horse, and after mounting and expressing for the last time his sincere regrets that he could not extend to them the hospitalities of his camp, rode away.
"Perhaps put it in the hands of the best trailer in Arizona," and with a laugh Frank pointed off to the left. The Kentucky boy turned his head in surprise, and then exclaimed: "Old Hank Coombs, on his pony, as sure as anything! You knew he was coming along all the while, and just kept mum. But I'm sure glad to see the old cowman right now.
Don't get the impression that you can't do this, because an all-round cowman can do anything where his interests are at stake. I'll think the programme out a little more clearly by the time you bring up the cattle." The herds were not over fifteen miles back up the river when we left them in the morning.
Knowles was peering at his report of the Reclamation Service, held to windward of a belching cloud of pipe smoke. His daughter darted to him regardless of the offending incense. "Oh, Daddy!" she cried. "What do you think! Mr. Blake is coming to visit us!" "Blake?" repeated the cowman, staring blankly over his pipe. "Yes, Mr. Blake, the engineer the great Thomas Blake of the Zariba Dam."
"Good-by," and the visitor turned on his heel and strode across the plateau, disappearing on the further margin, where he had first shown himself. Hank Hazletine stood looking after him as long as he was in sight. When at last he vanished, an expression of scornful contempt darkened the bearded face of the cowman, and he muttered: "Bill Tozer, you think you're smart, but I understand you!"
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