Betty flew into the house to get ready.
CHAPTER XVIII
A HOT TRAIL
Sheriff Daniels rode across the hogback above Elk Creek to a small ranch recently taken up by a homesteader, much to the annoyance of Jake Prowers. He found the man in a shed that served temporarily as a barn.
Here a cow was proudly licking a very wobbly calf.
“’Lo, Sheriff. How’re things comin’ with you? Fine an’ dandy?”
“No complaint, Howard. Had an increase in yore herd, looks like.”
“Yessir, though it didn’t look much thataway ’bout three o’clock this mo’ning a.m.”
“Come near losing her?”
“Bet I did. Both of ’em. But you never can tell, as the old sayin’ is. I stayed with it, an’ everything’s all right now.”
“I come across the hogback to have a chin with Black. Know whether he’s home?” the officer asked.