I only ask that you come as a diagnostician, doctor!" "But a ride to your ranch," he said miserably.

"I presume you refer to riding a horse ?" "Naturally." "I am unfamiliar with that means of locomotion," said the doctor with serious eyes, "and in fact have not carried my acquaintance with the equine species beyond a purely experimental stage.

Anatomically I have a superficial knowledge, but on the one occasion on which I sat in a saddle I observed that the docility of the horse is probably a poetic fallacy." He rubbed his left shoulder thoughtfully and saw a slight tremor at the corners of the girl's mouth.

It caused his vision to clear and concentrate; he found that the lips were, in fact, in the very act of smiling.

The face of the doctor brightened.
"You shall ride my own horse," said the girl.