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"He'll get her yet," the veterinary muttered morosely "That Fop isn't safe"

But at that moment Paula Forrest, unaware of her audience, with a sharp cry of command and a cavalier thrust of sharp spurs into The Fop's silken sides, checked hiround and a restless, cha chances?" Dick mildly reproached her, as the three rode up

"Oh, I can ht teeth, as, with ears back and vicious-glea eyes, The Fop bared his teeth in a bite that would have been perilously near to Graha had she not reined the brute abruptly away across the neck and driven both spurs solidly into his sides

The Fop quivered, squealed, and for the ahed "She's not afraid of hies hiery is in its intimate mood and tense"

Three times, while they looked on, ready to whirl their own steeds away if he got out of hand, The Fop attee, and three times, solidly, with careful, delicate hand on the bitter bit, Paula Forrest dealt hi, fretting, beaten, and in hand

"It's the way the white man has always done," Dick moralized, while Graham suffered a fluttery, shivery sensation of aded the savage the world around," Dick went on "He's out-endured him, out-filthed him, out- scalped him, out-tortured hier that the white enus hoe, in extreuest, the ranch veterinary, and her husband "I think I've got him now Let's look over the colts Just keep an eye, Mr Graham, on his mouth He's a dreadful snapper Ride free froe"

Now that The Fop's deht by soalloped and frisked away over the green turf, until, curious again, they circled back, halted at gaze, and then, led by one particularly saucy chestnut filly, drew up in half a circle before the riders, with alert pricking ears

Graha his protean hostess in a new role Would her proteanness never end? he wondered, as he glanced over the , eness, was aFop who advertised all the spirited viciousness of the hbred