I think I'd better see that old Jezebel myself." Secretly he was rather thankful for further action.

He told the boys when they fired questions at his hurried saddling that he was going to take Miss Georgie home, and that he would be back before long; in an hour, probably.

Then he galloped down the trail, and overtook her at the Point o' Rocks.
The sun was down, and the sky was a great, glowing mass of color.

Round the second turn of the grade they came upon Stanley, walking with his hands thrust in his trousers pockets and whistling softly to himself as if he were thinking deeply.

Perhaps he was glad to be let off so easily.
"Abandoning my claim," he announced, lightly as a man of his prosaic temperament could speak upon such a subject.