be some trouble. It's a mighty sight better than havin' 'em go
p'intin' off alone that a-way. They would shore miss the way if they
does; an' the first we-alls knows, these yere Britons would be
runnin' cimmaron in the hills, scarin' up things a lot, an' a-
stampedin' the cattle plumb off the range. It's easier to go along
careful with 'em an' bring'em back.'

"It comes, then, that one mornin' Dave an' me an' these yere aliens
lines out for the hills. They've got ponies, an' wagons, an' camp-
outfit to that extent a casooal onlooker might think they aims to be
away for years.

"As we p'ints out from the O.K. House, where them Britons has been
wrastlin' their chuck pendin' the start, Tucson Jennie is thar
sayin' 'goodby' to Dave. I notes then she ain't tickled to death
none about somethin', but don't deem nothin' speshul of it.

"The Britons is made up of two gents, mebby as old as Enright--
brothers is what they be--an' a female who's the daughter of one of
'em. Which thar's nothin' recent about this yere lady, though; an' I
reckons she's mighty likely forty years old. I learns later,
however, it's this female which Tucson Jennie resents when she says
"adios" to Dave.

"It shore strikes me now, when years is passed, as some marv'lous
how a han'some, corn-fed female like Tucson Jennie manages to found
a fight with Dave over this yere towerist woman. I'm nacherally slow
to go decidin' bets ag'in a lady's looks, but whatever Tucson Jennie
sees in the appearance of this person which is likely to inviggle
Dave is too many for me. I softens the statement a heap when I says