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"I dunno where Saunders is again," he said, letting his consent be taken for granted "But I'll go myself and saddle up, if you'll mind the store Soon as I finish waitin' on this custolance toward a s while he apathetically munched stale pretzels and waited for his purchases
"Oh, I can saddle, all right, Pete I've got two hours off, and I want to ride down to see how the Harts are getting along Exciting times down there, from all accounts"
"Maybe I can round up Saunders Hethe pork in a piece of brown paper and reaching for the string which dangled fro over his head
"Saunders is asleep, very likely If he isn't in his roo him The horse is in the stable, I suppose I can saddle better than Saunders"
Pete tied the package, wiped his hands, and went heavily out He returned immediately, said that Saundersout five pounds of white beans
Miss Georgie helped herself to a large bag of mixed candy, and put the money in the drawer, laid her key upon the desk for safe-keeping, repinned her white sailor hat so that the hot hich blew should not take it off her head, and went cheerfully away to the stable
She did not saddle the horse at once She first searched the pile of sweet-s clover in the far end, made sure that no man was there, assured herself in the same manner of the fact that she was absolutely alone in the stable so far as humans were concerned, and continued her search; not for Saunders now, but for sagebrush She went outside, and looked carefully at her is
"There's hardly a root of it anywhere around close," she said to herself "Nor around the store, either--nor any place where one would be apt to go ordinarily"
She stood there meditatively for a few , and saddled hurriedly Then,of candy which she h to hold it, she rode away to the Indian camp
The camp was merely a litter of refuse and the ashes of various ca forlorn in the ie never wasted precious tione into that tent unannounced and stated her errand without any co in the shade, with his foot bandaged and disposed co of candy, and stayed upon her horse