find him a collar-button that was missing.
"Dawggone my hide!" he fumed, and stopped abruptly, the collar-button
forgotten.
Joyce flew out of Dave's arms into her father's.
"Oh, Daddy, Daddy, I'm so happy," she whispered from the depths of his
shoulder.
The cattleman looked at Dave, and his rough face worked. "Boy, you're
in luck. Be good to her, or I'll skin you alive." He added, by way of
softening this useless threat, "I'd rather it was you than anybody on
earth, Dave."
The young man looked at her, his Joy-in-life, the woman who had brought
him back to youth and happiness, and he answered with a surge of emotion:
"I'll sure try."
THE END
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