I'll bet she just took Boise and run off with him.

She would, if she made up her mind--and I guess she'd had about as much as she could stand, cookin' at Little Lost--" Bud lifted his head and looked at Eddie like a man newly awakened.

"I gave her money to take home for me, to my mother, down Laramie way.

I begged her to go if she was liable to be in trouble over leaving the ranch.

But she said she wouldn't go--not unless she was missed.