Boy watched him calmly.
"I should have thought of that," she said.
Silver was starting off down the hill toward the mocking figure at the mouth of the Gap; but the girl stopped him.
"You get on and ride up the valley," she said. "Ragamuffin'll stop to graze under the lighthouse; and you'll collar him there."
Silver hesitated.
"What about you?" he asked.
"I shall be all right," she answered. "I've got the legs of him."
He mounted and went off at a canter, Billy Bluff pursuing him.
The girl walked down toward the Gap, looking ridiculously slight in her post-boy attire.
Joses had disappeared.