human
But when I got to McCauley's, there stood a hoss right in front of the house. It didn't take me two second to make the saddle-change. And then I was off agin!
gpt
That hoss was a beauty. Not long-legged like Bess, nor half so fast, but he was jest right for the hills. Climbed like a goat and didn't let up. Up and up we goes. The wind blows the clouds away when we gets to the top of the climb and I looks down into the valley all white in the moonlight. And across the valley I seen two little shadows slidin', smooth and steady. It was Dan and Satan and Black Bart!
human
Buck!
gpt
My heart, it stood plumb still! I gives my hoss the spurs and we went down the next slope. And I don't remember nothin' except that we got to the Circle K Bar after a million years, 'most, and when we got there the piebald flops on the ground--near dead. But I made the change and started off agin, and that next hoss was even better than the piebald--a sure goer! When he started I could tell by his gait what he was, and I looked up at the sky----
human
And thanked God, Buck?
gpt
Kate, I ain't ashamed if maybe I did. But since then I ain't seen or heard Dan, but all the time I rode I was expecting to hear his whistle behind me, close up.
human
No, Buck, if he'd a followed all the way he would have caught you in spite of your relay. No, I understand what happened. After a while he remembered that Mac Strann was waiting for him back in Brownsville. And he left your trail to be taken up later and went back to Brownsville. You didn't see him follow you after you left the Circle X Bar?
gpt
No. I didn't dare look back. But somehow I knew he was comin'.
human
He won't come, Buck. He'll go back to meet Mac Strann--and then---- She ran to the chair of Buck swiftly and caught his hands:
gpt
What sort of a man is Mac Strann?
human
Does it make any difference, he said,
gpt
No, she admitted,
human
If you came by relays for twenty-four hours, said the doctor, numbering his points upon accurate fingertips,