It was of a stock which will run from rise of sun to its going down, and yet plunge forward in the chill of the coming night.
"You want the Black Hawk horse you spoke for this morning, don't you ?" asked the stableman, as Jack dismounted.
"Of course I do.

I've got the change; there is his price.

Three hundred dollars you said ?" "Yes; but there's been a chap here looking at that horse who told me to tell you his name, and that he intended to take that horse.

I told him a man had bought it, but he said: 'Tell him Wild Bill wants it, and that Wild Bill will come at sunset to take it.'" "He will ?" It was hissed rather than spoken, while the young Texan's face grew white as snow, his blue eyes darkening till they seemed almost black.
"He will! Let him try it! A sudden death is too good for the blood-stained wretch! But if he will force it on, why let it come.

The horse is bought: let him come at sunset if he dares!" And the young man handed the stable-keeper three one hundred-dollar greenback notes..