Imagine yourself thrust into a cold and unfriendly world, if you
are a man, without a pocket knife, a bunch of keys, a handkerchief,
money, or a pair of shoes and you will be able to appreciate how a
cowboy feels without a horse.
Thus, buffeted by the storm, he shouldered on until suddenly
there loomed almost directly in his path the outlines of an adobe
house. Fortune smiled upon him! Here he would find a horse! He
stepped to the door and was about to knock when he heard the voice
of a woman crying out in protestation and pain. Then he flung the
door wide and stepped into the interior. Colby, holding Diana's
wrist, was twisting it in an excess of rage, for she had struck him
and repulsed him until the last vestige of his thin veneer of
manhood had fallen from him, leaving expo
