charm also to bring her
whatever she might desire.

That was the personal side of the situation. There was also the
professional side, which urged her to do battle for the interests of her
firm. And since both the personal and the professional aspects of the
case pointed to the same general goal, it may be assumed that Florence
Grace was prepared to make a stiff fight.

Then Andy Green proceeded to fall in love with that sharp-tongued
Rosemary Allen; and Rosemary Allen had no better taste than to let
herself be lost and finally found by Andy, and had the nerve to show
very plainly that she not only approved of his love but returned it.
After that, Florence Grace was in a condition to stop at nothing--short
of murder--that would defeat the Happy Family in their latest project.

While all the Bear Paw country was stirred up over the lost child,
Florence Grace Hillman said it was too bad, and had they found him yet?
and went right along planting contestants upon the claims of the Happy
Family. She encouraged the building of claim-shacks and urged firmness
in holding possession of them. She visited the man whom Irish had
knocked down with a bottle of whisky, and she had a long talk with him
and with the doctor who attended him. She saw to it that the contest
notices were served promptly upon the Happy Family, and she hurried in
shipments of stock. Oh, she was very busy indeed, during the week that
was spent in hunting the Kid. When he was found, and the rumor of
an engagement between Rosemary Allen and that treacherous Andy Green
reached her, she was busier still; but since she had changed her methods
and was careful to mask her real purpose behind an air of passive
resentment, her industry became less apparent.

The Happy Family did not pay much attention to Florence Grace Hallman
and her studied opposition. They were pretty busy attending to their own
affairs; Andy Green was not only busy but very much in love, so that
he almost forgot the existence of Florence Grace except on the rare
occasions when he met her riding over the prairie trails.

First of all they rounded up the stock that had been scattered, and
they did not stop when they crossed Antelope Coulee with the settlers'
cattle. They bedded them there until after dark. Then they drove them
on to the valley of Dry Lake, crossed that valley on the train traveled
road and pushed the herd up on Lonesome Prairie and out as far upon the
benchland as they had time