The wind blows the clouds away when we gets to the top of the climb and I looks down into the valley all white in the moonlight.

And across the valley I seen two little shadows slidin', smooth and steady.

It was Dan and Satan and Black Bart!" "Buck!" "My heart, it stood plumb still! I gives my hoss the spurs and we went down the next slope.

And I don't remember nothin' except that we got to the Circle K Bar after a million years, 'most, and when we got there the piebald flops on the ground--near dead.

But I made the change and started off agin, and that next hoss was even better than the piebald--a sure goer! When he started I could tell by his gait what he was, and I looked up at the sky----" He stopped, embarrassed.
"And thanked God, Buck ?" "Kate, I ain't ashamed if maybe I did.