“Wait a bit,” he urged. “I am going with you when you return to that town. That wild beast of a horse may be rampaging around again.”
“Ugh!” ejaculated Ruth with no feigned shudder. “He was awful!”
“Now you’ve said something! But you are a mighty cool girl, Miss Fielding. What Edie would have done——”
“She would have done quite as well as I, I have no doubt,” Ruth hastened to say. “And I have been in the West before, Mr. Phelps.”
“Yes? You are really a movie actor?”
“Sometimes.”
“And a college girl?”
“Always!” laughed his visitor.
“I believe you are puzzling me intentionally.”
“I told you that I was puzzled about you.”