"That pinto's yours, gell," said Bull Langdon, "and if you're the right kind o' gell, and treat the Bull right, it's the first o' the presents you'll be gettin'!"
Nettie shrank back, but she tried valiantly to hide her fear and repulsion. She said breathlessly:
"I don't want nothing that I don't earn."
At that the Bull laughed—a big, coarse chuckle.
"You'll get all that's comin' to you, gell," he said.
CHAPTER VI
Life was pleasant for Nettie Day at the Bar Q, where, in the pink and white gingham house dresses supplied by Mrs. Langdon, she looked prettier every day.
The clean and spacious ranch house, shining with sunlight, was a revelation to the girl who had lived all of her life in the two rooms of the poor shack with her parents and her nine little brothers and sisters.