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"Because I brought you here, you mean?"

"I don't mean only that. Some folks are born to be enemies, just

as some are born to be friends. They've only got to look in each

other's eyes once to know it."

"That's strange. I never heard anybody else say that. Do you

really mean it?"

"Yes."

"And did you ever have such an enemy before? Don't answer me if I

oughtn't to ask that," she added quickly.

"Yes."

"Where?"

"In Texas. Why, here we are at a ranch!"

"Yes. It's ours, and yours as long as you want to stay. Did you

feel that you were enemies the moment you saw this man in Texas?"

"I knew we were going to have trouble as soon as we looked at

each other. I had no feeling toward him, but he had toward me."

"And did you have trouble?"

"Some, before I landed him. The way it turned out he had most of

it."

She glanced quickly at him. "What do you mean by 'landed'?"

"I am an officer in the Texas Rangers."

"What are they? Something like our forest rangers?"