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"Think! She'll think you the biggest burro that ever brayed on the San Jacinto range She'll have a commission appointed to examine you for lunacy What in Mexico is ailin' you, anyhow? You're sick That's what's wrong Love-sick, by Moses!" exploded his friend

Dick s, Steve She's going to eat dirt because she ure what play she canhold of those blamed letters is the luckiest shot I've o I was just a plain ornery skunk Then I put over this grand-stand play and change the whole situation She's the one that's in bad now Didn't she tell ht off the bat what kind of a hairpin I was? Didn't she driveof h Now she finds out I' to be pluood does that do you? You're ht for the Rio Cha a kid quarrel with a girl?"

"I wouldn't take the Rio Chaift if I had to steal it frohfor bigger game than that Size up my hand beside Don Manuel's, and it looks pretty bu Maybe at the draw I'll fill"

"Mebbe you won't"

"I can bet it like I had an ace full, can't I? Anybody can play poker when he's got aones Show me the man that can make two pair back an all-blue hand off the rinned the h the pleasant coolness of the evening Dick sauntered along the streets to the Underwood home, nor was his contentment lessened because he knew that at a safe distance the brown shadows still dogged his steps In a scabbard fitted neatly beneath his left arood friend that more than once had saved its owner's life To the fraction of a second Gordon knew just how long it would take hiet this into action in case of need

Kate Underwood -roo Somehow even before her soft voice welcoentle presence diffused an atmosphere of home