me o' the feller who sits
next to me las' night; the one who was waitin' fer Matlock to make a
break?' er words to thet effect. 'How d'ye guess it?' I axes, bein' some
took aback--fer I didn't think he was wise ter the play. 'Will ye tell
me his name, man!' sez he, kinder impatient; 'I'm in a hurry.' Then I
give him your handle an' bymeby he twisted your pedigree outer me, too.
Not that he axes me any questions ter speak of, but somehow I slops over
without thinkin' an' he listens sharp. 'You're a friend o' hisn?' he
says, quiet like. 'Well, I don't wonder none. That's a man!' sez he. 'An
he's going to be my manager if I can fix it. I'm Carter, o' ther C Bar!'

"Say I, 'th' hell ye are! I knowed ole Bob Carter afore ye was
earmarked. You don't look none like him.' But his jaws snaps amazin'.
'My father is daid,' he whips out, 'but I am Robert Carter all the
same.' I axes his pardon an' he hikes out on your trail. An' I sez to
myself, he's some man, too!"

Douglass going out encountered a lady just entering the store. As he
stepped aside to allow her passage-way through the narrow door, their
eyes met momentarily and she flushed slightly at the unconscious
boldness of his look. Yet, curiously enough, she took no offense
thereat, and turned around as old Williams bawled out, "Hey, there!
Douglass. Come back yere; I'v got a letter fer you I overlooked
yisteday."

Out of the tail of his eye the man saw that the woman was young, dressed
quietly yet in exquisite taste, and that she was extremely good to look
at. She was evidently a stranger, yet there was something intangibly
familiar about her features. It was not until that night that he traced
the resemblance to Carter, when he knew immediately that this was the
sister of whom his employer had spoken. And although none knew better
than he the disparity of their social planes, he dropped off to sleep
wishing that her stay on the ranch would be indefinitely prolonged, for,
next to a horse he deemed a woman the most creditable and handsome of
divine creations, and beauty he adored both in the concrete and
abstract. It would be very pleasant and agreeable to come in contact
occasionally with this extremely pretty girl; it would ameliorate the
coarse, hard routine of his work just as the finding of a cluster of
mountain heart's-ease had often before dispelled the gloom of a hard
day's ride. His thought of her was purely impersonal as yet. He slept
dreamlessly the sleep of he