Oh, You Tex

"[...]charge of a trail herd. Not by the flicker of an eyelash did the line-rider show that this news meant anything to him. It was promotion-better pay, a better chance for advancement, an easier life. But Jack Roberts had learned to take good and ill fortune with the impassive face of a gambler. "Keep an eye out for rustlers, Pedro," he advised before he left. "You want to watch Box Canon. Unless I'm 'way off, the Dinsmore gang are operatin' through it. I 'most caught one red-handed the other day. Lucky for me I didn't. You an' Jumbo would 'a' had to bury me out on the lone prairee." Nearly ten hours later Jack Roberts dismounted in front of the whitewashed adobe house that was the[...].""