Chapter 14
BULL SEES COLBYBULL turned Blazes' head toward the northeast and rode off
slowly in the direction of Coyote Canyon near the head of which
there was a wild and almost inaccessible country just east of
Hell's Bend Pass. There was water there and game for himself, with
year round pasture for Blazes.
As he rode he hummed a gay little air, quite unlike the grim,
taciturn Bull that his acquaintances knew, for Bull was
happy-happier than he had been for months.
"An' to think," he mused, "thet she rode out there all alone to
warn me. An' once she said to me, 'Bull,' says she, 'I don't love
any man, Bull, thet way; but if ever I do he'll know it without my
tellin' him. I'll do something thet will prove it-a girl always
does.'
"Thet's what she says -them's her very words. I
