He's trainin' for the races next month." "An' when air they comin' off ?" "You got me.

Mebbe Van knows." Some one prodded a sleepy rider who lay all his splendid lithe length, hat over his eyes.

Then he sat up and blinked, a lean-faced, gray-eyed fellow, half good-natured and half resentful.
"Did somebody punch me ?" "Naw, you got nightmare! Say, Van, when will the races come off ?" "Huh! An' you woke me for thet?
...

Bostil says in a few weeks, soon as he hears from the Indians.

Plans to have eight hundred Indians here, an' the biggest purses an' best races ever had at the Ford." "You'll ride the King again ?" "Reckon so.