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Fraser found them, tightened the saddle girth, and mounted Teddy.

As they cantered away, Arlie called to him to look at the sunset

behind the mountains.

From the moment of her dismissal of Briscoe the girl had

apparently put him out of her thoughts. No fine lady of the

courts could have done it with more disdainful ease. And the

Texan, following her lead, played his part in the little comedy,

ignoring the other man as completely as she did.

The young cattleman, furious, his teeth set in impotent rage,

watched it all with the lust to kill in his heart. When they had

gone, he flung himself into the saddle and rode away in a

tumultuous fury.

Before they had covered two hundred yards Arlie turned to her

companion, all contrition. "There! I've done it again. My fits of

passion are always getting me into trouble. This time one of them

has given you an enemy, and a bad one, too."

"No. He would have been my enemy no matter what you said. Soon as

he put his eyes on me, I knew it."