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Show Page 54 meet the famous Ann Bassett. Bernard had wanted to meet Ann ever since she had written him a letter telling him how undesirable he and Ora Haley were. She had also told him to keep to the road when he visited Brown's Park, as tracks of Two Bar animals were repulsive to her. Well, he wasn't on the road as she had ordered, and now he'd get a chance to find out if she had as much nerve in person as she did on paper. As the riders approached each other, Bernard saw Ann was wearing at least one gun. His hands wanted to reach skyward, for something high overhead. He held them at his sides with difficulty and introduced himself. "Howdy. Hi Bernard here," he said calmly. "Gray wolves belong in this country," snapped Ann. "You're nothing but a Two Bar worm and you're crawling out of bounds." With those salty words Ann rode off. Despite Ann's rude behavior at their first meeting, Bernard didn't forget his encounter on Douglas Mesa with the fiery Ann Bassett. He had discovered that "when a girl's being savage, she also can be very attractive." And Ann was attractive even when she wasn't being "savage," for Seeabaka's "white papoose" had grown into a very handsome woman. Ann stood five feet three inches tall and possessed a shapely one-hundred-fifteen- pound figure. She also had large grey eyes and wavy auburn hair. Hi Bernard was not the first man to fall under the power of Ann's charms, even though he had yet to feel the full influence of those charms. |
