It's strained to the snapping-point right now, just because the don is friendly with us gringos.

Of course, we can't help that.

He had his ideas on the subject before he ever saw me or you.
Just the same, it's up to us not to do the snapping; and I know one gringo that's going to behave himself if I have to take him down and set on him!" "Whee-ee! Somebody else is hitting the war-post, if I know the signs!" Dade stirred to anger always tickled Jack immensely, perhaps because of its very novelty, and restored him to good humor.

"Have it your own way, then, darn you! I don't want to go on rodeo, nohow." "I know that, all right," snapped Dade, and started off with his hat tilted over his eyes.

No one, he reminded himself, would want to spend a month or so riding the range when he could stay and philander with as pretty a Spanish girl as ever played the game of cat-and-mouse with a man.