Shoe-Bar Stratton - Chapter 14

Stratton's first feeling was that the girl must have made a mistake. In a dazed fashion he stepped forward and helped her out of the buckboard, but this was a more or less mechanical action and because she so evidently expected it. As he took her hand she pressed it warmly and did not at once relinquish ² it after she had reached the ground., ,"I'm awfully ³ glad to see you again," she said, her color heightened a little. "But how on earth do you come to be away off here?", ,With an effort Buck ¹ pulled himself together. He could see that the men were regarding him curiously ⁴, and felt that he must say something., , ,She looked slightly puzzled. "Really? But I thought--I had no idea you knew--Mary.", ,"I didn't. I needed a job and drifted in here thinking I'd find a friend of mine who used to work on the same outfit ⁷ in Texas. He was gone, but Miss Thorne took me on.", ,The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。,He was forced to relinquish control of the company.他被迫放弃公司的掌控权 。