WILD THINGS AND TAME
more now, and a lot of men to work it, and all the incidental stuff to keep the two, the men and the land, going. And I get up at sunrise, and go to bed at ten o'clock in a way my mother would applaud; and everything on the ranch gets up and gets down when I tell it to, and I run that thing on schedule time!"
They both laughed. "It has taken me ten years," Carron said, "to find out that I am just like her."
Blanche Rader rested her chin on her hand, bringing her amused, inquiring gaze nearer to his. "But now you have run away for a vacation, haven't you?"
"Well, yes. What little there is of my father in me got stirring around this latter part of the summer. I couldn't stand it any longer. I think I was spoiling with work."
"Father told me that you had come here for the hunting."
Carron lifted one eyebrow. "Hunting will do. But what I have really come for is for a taste of the irresponsible life."
"Oh, me!" she sighed, "we never have anything else!"
"Then I shall expect you to do great things for me."
"Great things?" Her eyes grew larger.
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