14/30 No moment could ever equal that one, when he realized he stood there with a rope around that grand stallion's neck. All the days and the miles and the toil and the endurance and the hopelessness and the hunger were paid for in that moment. His heart seemed too large for his breast. "I stayed--with you! ... An' I got a rope--on you! An'-- I'll ride you--you red devil!" The passion of the man was intense. |