Stars has Jose, but no moon to bear him company when he rides.

Surely the cattle will fall upon their knees when the senor draws near!" "Shall we ride out and put them to the test ?" he asked wishfully, shaking out the bridle to show the beautiful design of silver inlaid upon the leather cheek-piece, and stooping to adjust a big-roweled, silver-incrusted spur upon his boot-heel.

"Manuel does exactly as he is told.

I said he was to get the best he could find--" "And so no vaquero in the valley will be so gorgeous--" She broke off suddenly to sing in lilting Spanish a fragment of some old song that told of the lilies of the field that "Toil not, neither do they spin." "That is not kind.

I may not spin, but I toil--I leave it to Dade if I don't." This last, because he caught sight of Dade coming across from the row of huts, which was a short cut up from the corrals.