Because I'm liable to be on your heels when you ride into Elkhead." Gary Peters lifted his eyebrows and then restored his pipe.

He spoke through his teeth.
"You ain't got a piece of money to bet on that, partner ?" he queried softly.
"Ten extra if you get to Elkhead before me." "They's limits to hoss-flesh," remarked Peters.

"What time you ridin' against ?" "Against a cross between a bullet and a nor'easter, Gary.

I'm going back to drink to your luck." A promise which Buck Daniels fulfilled, for he had need of even borrowed strength.

He drank steadily until a rattle of hoofs down the street entered the saloon, and then someone came in to say that Gary Peters had started out of town to "beat all hell, on his red mare." After that, Buck started out to find Dan Barry.