Billy Louise held herself rigidly from starting at this. She bit her lips so that it hurt. The corral is at the head of a steep little canyon or gulch, back in the hills where all these bigger canyons head. Some time when you 're riding up that way, you keep an eye out for it. The heart of Billy Louise went heavy in her chest.
Doubts are harder to kill than cats or snakes.
You think they 're done for, and here they come again, crowding close so that one can see nothing else. She forced the words out of her dry throat. She lifted her head defiantly and looked at him full, trying to read the truth from his eyes and his mouth. That 's one reason why I brought the cattle down here. I did n't want to be placed in a position where I should be compelled to fight back.