“Yes.”
“How did Miss Burrage happen to know her?”
“The rancher’s daughter went abroad last winter, and they became acquainted in Italy.”
“And so she invited Inza here when they met by accident on the train. Is that the way of it?”
“Sure. Inza told her she and Miss Gale were traveling with us, and Miss Rodney made the invitation include the whole of us. I was glad enough to accept it when I learned there was to be a regular cowboy tournament here to-day, to end to-night with a dance.”
“That’s all right,” said Bruce, “if you’ll let us be spectators. I don’t see any sense in getting out and trying to beat the punchers at their own tricks.”
“Don’t let that worry you. I am not chump enough to try to do any trick we’ll not have an even show at. We’ll see a bit of cowboy sport here, and our tour eastward would not have been complete without it.”
“That’s so! That’s so!”
The others of the party were very enthusiastic over the prospect of a day of sport on a Texas cattle ranch.
“All right,” grunted Bruce. “You fellows may hoe in and have all the sport you like. I’ll keep still and look on.”