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A Mexican vaquero was driving soged him from the saddle

"Didn't I tell you to take the colts down to the long pasture?"

"Si, señor," answered the trereat fist rose and fell once The Mexican sank li him aside, and strode to the house

As the owner of the Twin Star had said, so it was Thereafter Phyllis sat at the table with him and his sister, while Josephine, the Mexican wo But she held herself with such a quiet aloofness that his victory was a barren one

"Do you want to go ho, while at breakfast

"Is it likely I would want to stay here?" she retorted

"Why not? What have you to complain of? Aren't you treated well?"

"Yes"

"What, then? Are you afraid?"

"No!" she answered, with a flash of her fine eyes

"That's good, because you've got to stay here--or go to the pen You enerous I suppose you don't expect to keep ets well Since you wounded it you ought to nurse it"

"Which I a, even while I am here"