The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "That so? Well, turn your wolf loose when y'u get to feelin' real
devilish," jeered the undismayed one, strolling forward to assist
Miss Messiter to alight.
The mistress of the Lazy D had been aware of the byplay, but she
had caught neither the words nor their import. She took the
offered brown hand smilingly, for here again she looked into the
frank eyes of the West, unafraid and steady. She judged him not
more than twenty-two, but the school where he had learned of life
had held open and strenuous session every day since he could
remember.
"Glad to meet y'u, ma'am," he assured her, in the current phrase
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