Chapter 1. A Gentleman Ranker
_ CHAPTER I. A GENTLEMAN RANKER
Dan McLagan shifted his cigar, and his face lit with a grin of satisfaction.
"Seventy-five per cent. of calves," he murmured, glancing out at the sunlit yards. "Say, it‘s been an elegant round-up." Then his enthusiasm rose and found expression. "It‘s the finest, luckiest ranch in Montana--in the country. Guess I‘d be within my rights if I said ‘in the world.‘ I can‘t say more."
"No."
The quiet monosyllable brought the rancher down to earth. He looked round at his companion with an inquiring glance.
"Eh?"
But Jim Thorpe had no further comment to offer.
The two were sitting in the foreman‘s cabin, a small but roughly comfortable split-log hut, where elegance and tidiness had place only in the more delicate moments of its occupant‘s retrospective imagination. Its furnishing belonged to the fashion of the prevailing industry, and had in its manufacture the utilitarian methods of the Western plains, rather tha

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