Boys, you hit for Crater with this fellow.

You ought to make it there and back by tomorrow noon, all right." Nelse took the lead rope from Bud and the two started off up the creek, meaning to strike the road from Little Lost to Crater, the county seat beyond Gold Gap mountains.

Bud rode on to the ranch with his boss, and tried to answer Dave's questions satisfactorily without relating his own prowess or divulging too much of Stopper's skill; which was something of a problem for his wits.
Honey ran out to meet him and had to be assured over and over that he was not hurt, and that he had lost nothing but his temper and the ride home with her in the moonlight.

She was plainly upset and anxious that he should not think her cowardly, to leave him that way.
"I looked back and saw a man throwing his rope, and you--it looked as if he had dragged you off the horse.

I was sure I saw you falling.