She wet her handkerchief and bathed her hot face.

It was indeed very comfortable there after that long hot ride.
"Miss Lenore, I seen thet Nash pawin' you," said the cowboy, "an' by Gosh! I couldn't believe my eyes!" "Not so loud! Jake, the young gentleman imagines I'm in love with him," replied Lenore.
"Wall, I'll remove his imagining'," declared Jake, coolly.
"Jake, you will do nothing." "Ahuh! Then you air in love with _him ?_" Lenore was compelled to explain to this loyal cowboy just what the situation meant.

Whereupon Jake swore his amaze, and said, "I'm a-goin' to lick him, anyhow, fer thet!" And he caught up the tin cup and shuffled away.
Footsteps and voices sounded on the path, upon which presently appeared Anderson and young Dorn.
"Father's gone to Wheatly," he was saying.

"But I'm glad to tell you we'll pay twenty thousand dollars on the debt as soon as we harvest.

If it rains we'll pay it all and have thirty thousand left." "Good! I sure hope it rains.