"If it's all the same to you, I'll report for work in the morning, if you'll tell me where to head for.

And I'll have to arrange somehow to pasture my horses; I've got a couple more at camp." Bart studied him for a minute, and Bud thought he was going to change his mind about the job, or the sixty dollars a month.

But Bart merely told him to ride on up the Flat next morning, and take the first trail that turned to the left.

"The Muleshoe ranch is up there agin that pine mountain," he explained.

"Bring along your outfit.