She wouldn't need to ask me to stay at the cabin all night.

I could have gone on to the Two Diamond.

I reckon that snake bite wasn't so plum dangerous that I'd have died if I'd have rode a little while." As he came out of a little gully a few miles up the river and rode along the crest of a ridge that rose above endless miles of plains, his thoughts went back to that first night in the bunkhouse when the outfit had come in from the range.

Satisfaction glinted in his eyes.
"I reckon them boys didn't make good with her.

An' I expect that some day Leviatt will find he's been wastin' his time." He frowned at thought of Leviatt and unconsciously his spurs drove hard against the pony's flanks.