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The Stolen Grey
(MSIi«s) By MONTANYE PERRY
««pwADDY, oh, daddy!" [_J There was a glad, affectionate note in the call, and the man bending over a broken fence wire lifted his head quickly to smile at the girl who was running across the field toward him.
''I've had such a good ride," she said, looking up at her father while she bent to pat the neck of his horse, contentedly cropping the short grass. "I went way up the canyon. It's a glorious day."
''An' where's Beauty now?"
"Heft her by the front gate. She's tired enough to stand quietly. Oh, you were so good to get her for me, daddy. It 's the nicest birthday present I ever had. But I 'm afraid you spent too much money. ' '
"Now, dont worry about that. I always meant you should have a good horse when you got home from school to stay, so when I seen that gang over to the station shippin' horses East I stepped up to look at 'em. The minute my eyes lit on that grey I says to myself, 'That's the horse for Doris.' Pedro didn 't want to sell at first, said he'd promised to ship a grey one, and didn't have another, but money talks, so Pedro listened to reason."
Doris laughed — the musical, irrepressible gurgle that never failed to bring a responsive twinkle to Dolan's eyes.
"You spoil me, daddy," she said.
"I reckon they ain't much danger o' that. I got to make up to myself somehow for them two years you was away to school. It was a good while, and I was always wonderin' if you'd ever want to come back. ' '
"If I'd want to come back, daddy?" She drew close to him, placing a round, sunburned arm about his neck, looking up at him with reproachful eyes. "You surely didn't think I would want to stay away from you?"
"How could I tell, child? Most girls that go off to school learn to hate the ranches. I wanted yer to see the East and have yer chance, but I thank the Lord yer come back to me. Yer all I've got."
"And you are all I have," said Doris, "just you — and Beauty."
' ' There 's that Pedro and his crowd now," exclaimed Dolan. "They're comin' this wa}r. That's Pedro ahead; he's the one I bought Beauty of. They seem to be in a terrible hurry. ' '
DONALD MAYNARD GOES FOR A RIDE
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