CHAPTER 4Beatrice Learns a New Language.
"D'you want to see the boys work a bunch of cattle, Trix?" d**k said to her, when she came down to where he was leaning against a high board fence, waiting for her.
"'Deed I do, Dicky--only I've no idea what you mean."
"The boys are going to cut out some cattle we've contracted to the government--for the Indians, you know. They're holding the bunch over in Dry Coulee; it's only three or four miles. I've got to go over and see the foreman, and I thought maybe you'd like to go along."
"There's nothing I can think of that I would like better. Won't it be fine, Sir Redmond?"
Sir Redmond did not say whether he thought it would be fine or not. He still had the white streak around his mouth, and he went through the gate and on to the house without a w
