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Mrs Budlong, whose phleghly roination, was dressed to reseht and width perauntlets, quirt, spurs to delight a Mexican, and swagger--which had the effect of a barge rocking at anchor--so fascinated Pinkey that he could not keep his eyes from her

Old Mr Penrose in a buckskin shirt ornate with dyed porcupine quills, and a forty-five Colt slung in a holster, looked like the next to the last of the Great Scouts, while Mr Budlong, in a beaded vest that would have turned bullets, was happy though uncoe bandit, except that he worethat he would find itthem

Simultaneous with Miss Gaskett's appearance in plaid bloomers a saddle-horse lay back and broke his bridle-reins, for which Pinkey had not the heart to punish hi, voluminous, divided skirts and a little white hat like a paté-tin, while by contrast Mrs Harry Stott looked very s breeches

This was the party that started up Skull Creek under Pinkey's guidance, and the areeted the choleric eye of Mr Canby on one of the solitary rides which were his greatest diversion He had just returned from the East and had not yet learned of the use to which Wallie had put his check But now he recalled Wallie's parting speech to Pinkey when he had started to get the paper cashed, and this fantastic company was the result!

As Canby drew in his horse, he stared in stony-eyed unfriendliness while they waved at hi to be neighbourly and visit hi of helpless wrath in which he now looked after the party was a sensation that he had experienced only a few times in his life Pinkey had warned him that at the first openly hostile act he would "blab" the story of the Skull Creek episode far and wide He had hit Canby in hiswhich he found it ilee hich his ood care that it never died

By all the rules of the game as he had played it often, and alith success, Wallie should long since have "faded"--scared, starved out Yet, somehow, in some unique and extraordinary way that only a "dude" would think of, he had ed to come out on top