But I guess I better go home first--I guess Doctor Dell might need me, maybe." "I know she does, Buck." Andy's voice had a peculiar, shaky sound that the Kid did not understand.

"She needs you right bad.

We'll hit the high places right away quick." Since Andy had gone at daybreak and brought the horses over into this canyon, his statement was a literal one.

They ate hurriedly and started--and Miss Allen insisted that Andy was all turned around, and that they were going in exactly the wrong direction, and blushed and was silent when Andy, turning his face full toward her, made a kissing motion with his lips.
"You quit that!" the Kid commanded him sharply.

"She's my girl I guess I found her first 'fore you did, and you ain't goin' to kiss her." After that there was no lovemaking but the most decorous conversation between these two.
Flying U Coulee lay deserted under the warm sunlight of early forenoon.
Deserted, and silent with the silence that tells where Death has stopped with his sickle.