Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert
seconds, then, with a sudden turn of the
foot, catching the pony fairly on the nose. As he hastily withdrew his head, she took adva
were observed with intense inte
lled Hi Lang in
beat to the task of discovering what
aight up. One moment she felt that they were both going to fall over backwards, and was about to clear
his feet touched the ground than he leaped clear of it, coming down stiff-legged with a jolt that jarred Grace Har
," warned the stead
strong enough to get the black bronco's head up so he could not carry out his intention. There followed
t by the hoofs of her mount. The jolting she was getting was almost more than she could endure and sharp pains were shooting through her body. Th
!" yelled
runt from him. In the cloud of dust the spectators thought that Grace had been caught under the horse and
Lang, who had sprung forward to g
side of the saddle, free of the body of the horse, but breathing heavily. Her quickness
t her crop down on his rump with a vicious whack. It stung. Like a flash th
tant the pony felt the smart of the crop. How the dust
howled Hippy Wingate.
ed that the time had arrived when she must do a little fighting for herself, and not leave it all to th
ng forward in another series of savage bucks. Grace jerked the animal's head to one side, broug
ge of tactics, whirled and started away at a run, driving straight through the assembled cro
as he had started, stopped stiff-legged, braced himself a
orsed her. As it was she fell forward on the neck of the bronco, but, recovering herself before the animal co
t few minutes pony and rider went like a black streak across the landscape, the Overland girl giving the pony no tim
raced for the corral, driving and urging the pony with crop and word, bound
d with white foam, the cowboys broke loose. Shrill cowboy yells, whoops and cat
toward the bronco as he saw Grace wavering on he
e. She had fought and won a battle with an "outlaw" pony that many a hard- muscled cowboy had fought only to lose. Now tha
s had sprung to her assistance, but it wa
I'll catch y
er head and t
ups and slipping limply until her feet touched the ground. For a moment she stood l
rful that the pony might spring to one
led herself to his head. Fumbling in her pocket, she drew forth a piece of c
med a cowboy. "A bronc' eatin' outer a lady'
s the shorest thing I know," decla
s, and the Overland girl slipped down under the pony's neck in a dead faint. The bronco, merely by lif
own and nosed her with the nearest approach to affect
rl up cautiously and carried her to
stand back and give
" said Elfreda Brigg hu
as Grace regained consciousness Elfreda bathed her fa
hing for me do," muttered Gra
hat wild animal, I ag
Bri
. What will these
ng. "Bud, come here," he called, beckoning to one of the wranglers. "This little lady wants
painfully under his tan,
t the leather," declared Bud. "Any feller thet sez you ain't, is a liar and a h
nting condition. Getting up rather unsteadily, she offered her hand to the cowboy, who, in his
. We double cinch what
lled a co
s much higher praise than I deserve," she rep
on goin', Miss?" questi
ey had planned to cros
a diamond mine or an iron mine down in the Specter Rang
" drawled Bud. "If you all need help any old time, Ah r
im and said she
t black bronco, are you!" questione
our start this afternoon, unless Mr. Lang advi
through, you'd be wishing to lay up for
ible course to follow,"
-that is what I shall call my pony-and not to be cross with him? I do not wish the little fellow stirred up. I have him temporarily under co
d his back on them and walked away to give Grace's
that all of you turn in for a beauty sleep. You will need it, for we shall have a hot, dusty ride between here and the mountains, which we shall not reach until some time this evening. If you have any furth
leep, fortifying themselves for the experiences before them, experiences that were destined
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