William MacLeod Raine

Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine

Book Excerpt: ...d what might pass for "Howdy!" if one were an optimist. Roberts explained his presence by saying: "You sent for me, Mr. Wadley.""H'm! That durned fool York done bust his laig. Think you can take a herd up the trail to Tascosa?""Yes, sir.""That's the way all you brash young colts talk. But how many of 'em will you lose on the way? How sorry will they look when you deliver the herd? That's what I'd like to know."Jack Roberts was paying no attention to the grumbling of his boss--for a young girl had come out of the house. She was a slim little thing, with a slender throat that carried the small head like the stem of a rose. Dark, long-lashed eyes, eager and bubbling with laughter, were fixed on Wadley. She had slipped out on tiptoe to surprise him. Her soft fingers covered his eyes."Guess who!" she ordered."Quit yore foolishness," growled the cattleman. "Don't you-all see I'm talkin' business?" But the line-rider observed that his arm encircled the waist of...