Pratik and everyone else working on my little puzzle, Here's a bigger piece of context. Oddly enough, I find it somewhat gratifying that I'm not the only one stumped by this one. <lol> The conversation had taken place in the cookhouse, the hut that divided the main house from the dog run, and Luisa, punching some dough with her fist as if she had a spite against it, said, "He rides when necessary. He knows the country right away into the Comancheria; he's a scout, as good as any Indian. The Comanches Jauo-h at the soldiery but never at the rangers. I think he and O'Toole's rangers have been farther north than any of them yet, Up there the Comanches had it all to themselves at one time; they used to ride down from the high plateaus, usually in moonlight, and raid the small ranchsteaders. Kellie