She did not even tell herself why she did that.
So Mary V, knowing well the terrific heat she would have to face in the middle of the day, ordered her horse saddled when the boys saddled their own--which was about sunrise.

She did not keep it standing more than half an hour or so before she came out and mounted him.

She was well equipped for her enterprise.

She carried a camera, three extra rolls of film, a telescoped tripod which she tied under her right stirrup leather, a pair of high-power Busch glasses (to glimpse with, probably), two duck-covered canteens filled and dripping, a generous lunch of sandwiches and cake and sour pickles, a box-magazine .22 rifle, a knife, a tube of cold cream wrapped in a bit of cheesecloth, and a very compact yet very complete vanity case.

Jostling the vanity case in her saddle pocket were two boxes of soft-nose, .22-long cartridges for the rifle.