"Me sure! I been hidin' in my whiskers so long I didn't know if you'd know me."
"I been thinking about you every day."
"Uhuh. So have I. I reckon some others has, too. Say, what you been doin' lately, studyin' law or learnin' the piano? I been lookin' for you for a week. It's the first day I seen you out on the range."
"I was working in the garden first. Then they put me at this, this mornin'."
"Uhuh. Well, Col, that there getaway of mine is in all the papers. 'Tramp Cowboy Steals Horse and Escapes.' Say, did she yip about my borrowin' the cayuse?"
"She was mad at first. But your fancy ridin' kind of made her forget. I told her you was square, Red."
"Huh! I guess she could tell that herself."
"But, Red, I'm not kidding. I told her uncle about the bunch and the guy on the desert."
"Did he believe it?"
"I guess so. He ain't said much. But he gives me the chance to make good. He must have believed somethin'."