"I'll send round by the road
for your hoss, and have one of mine fetch up your wagon."
"Is it far?" asked the girl, slightly acknowledging his salutation,
without waiting for her companion to reply.
"Only a step this way," he answered, motioning to the field of wheat
beside her.
"What in THERE? I never could go in there," she said, decidedly.
"It's a heap shorter than by the road, and not so dusty. I'll go with
you, and pilot you."
The young girl cast a vexed look at her companion as the probable cause
of all this trouble, and shook her head. But at the same moment one
little foot slipped from the adobe into the dust again. She instantly
clambered back with a little feminine shriek, and ejaculated: "Well,
of all things!" and then, fixing her blue annoyed eyes on the stranger,
asked impatiently, "Why couldn't I go there by the road 'n the wagon? I
could manage to hold on and keep in."
"Because I reckon you'd find it too pow'ful hot waitin' here till we got
round to ye.
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