d and handed it to Hulls.

"Tell Archie that that ought to take keer of debt en int'rest. Ye see,
I didn't have any money with me that day, en anyhow, Archie poo-pooed
the idee of pay at the time, but I always want to pay for he'p
thataway. But I never saw Archie again en I'm glad of this chance to
ease my mind."

Hulls folded the bill and put it in his pocket. He looked at the sun.
"I expect that we'd better git goin'; we've put in the whole night
a-loadin' up, en we got down here a piece en found out that we forgot
the dog en we had to go back. En say, Landy," he called as the wagon
started, "I forgot to turn them bulls out to worter. If ye go out that
way, will ye open the gate en let 'em out?"

The rattle of the wagon repressed the eager reply.

Landy resumed the way to the north; Davy waited to watch the wagon and
its little cloud of dust disappear over a distant swell. When he
rejoined his friend he rode in front of Frosty to halt for a
conference.

"You've made the right estimate, Landy, they're not bad people. As
hurried as they were, they had time to go back a mile or two for the
dog. People that do that sort of things are not bad. I feel sorry for
'em."

"Well, yer sorrow is sorta misplaced; they're havin' the time of their
young lives. Hulls is a-gettin' out of a mess that had no other
outlet; Maizie is to see a lot of new scenery en will git to he'p
Archie spend the money; Ugly is a-gittin' to hang around Maizie while
he eats at least two steady meals a day. I was jist figgerin', Hulls
has got more money in his pocket than he ever had in all his born
days. He's evidently sold off about ten cows en calves to Mooney
Whitset of the Diamond outfit; he's got the forty--if Ugly give hit to
him, en the five I jist handed him--that Archie will never see--so,
all told, they are in clover. Hit will take 'em about two weeks to
make the trip, en with all that plunder aboard Archie will give 'em a
royal welcome.

"Ye see, son, old Matt--ner the boys--ever made a dime out of this
place--never wanted to. Jist fiddled around, huntin', fishin' en
loafin'. The whole thing wasn't any bigger an asset than a job as a
section hand on the U P. Their sales of scrawny cattle jist about paid
the taxes en bought their salt en terbacker.

"Now, son, ye are on the Bar-O. The line runs from them peaks in the
Cliffs to a bend in the crick at that fringe of trees. Then add two
sections of rough land around the Cliffs, en that's