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It was late that night when I reached the herd. Before I parted with my employer we had carefully reviewed the situation in its minutest details. Since the future could not be foreseen, we could only watch and wait. The Texan may have his shortcomings, but lack of fidelity to a trust is not one […]

"Tom," said my employer, "I am up against a bad proposition. I am driving these Buford cattle, you understand, on a sub-contract. I was the second lowest bidder with the government, and no sooner was the award made to The Western Supply Company than they sent an agent who gave me no peace until they […]

But in that night of trial a mercy was extended to the dumb brutes in charge. A warm rain began falling, first in a drizzle, increasing after the first hour, and by midnight we could hear the water slushing under our horses’ feet. By the almost constant flashes of lightning we could see the cattle […]

  Torrance fled back to the end-of-steel village at Mile 127, that ghastly face before him, the picture of a strong man weeping. And for three days he drank himself to forgetfulness.   On the morning of the fourth day he rolled up his sleeves again, waved his hand after the fleeing O’Connor, and signed […]

  "Sure you would," she agreed contentedly. "Now run along and do Morani’s orchestra justice. He deserves it."   He patted her cheek and returned to his favourite stand in the front door.   The evening mysteries were deepening. Already the trunks of the trees on the far bank of the river were merging into […]