I reckon if
you'd tied your hands, Tex, you'd been riding that rocking-hawss
yet," suggested Denver amiably.
"Sometimes it's his foot he puts in it. There was onct a gent
disqualified for riding on his spurs," said Texas reminiscently.
At which hit Denver retired, for not three hours before he had
been detected digging his spurs into the cinch to help him stick
to the saddle.
"Jim McWilliams will ride Dead Easy," came the announcement
through the megaphone, and a burst of cheering passed along the
grand stand, for the sunny smile of the foreman of the Lazy D
made him a general favorite. Helen leaned forward and whispered
something gaily to Nora, who sat in the seat in front of her. The
Irish girl laughed and blushed, but when her mistress looked up
it was her turn to feel the mounting color creep into her cheeks.
For Ned Bannister, arrayed in all his riding finery, was making
his way along the aisle to her.
She had not seen him since he had ridden away from the Lazy D ten
days before, quite sufficiently recovered from his wounds to take
up the routine of life again. They had parted not the best of
friends, for she had not yet forgiven him for his determination
to leave with his cousin on the night that she had been forced to
insist on his remaining.
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