He's fearfully busy--stopped off on his way East.

There's a row on in the forest service about some of Osborne's timber claims--mining claims, too, I believe--in Colorado.

Those years in the West have developed Fred splendidly.

He's gone from boy to man, and a fine specimen of man, at that." "He likes his work ?" "Full of it." Wayne was silent for a moment, then added: "I envied him." It startled Katie.

"Envied him?
Why--why, Wayne?
Surely you're lucky." He laughed: not the laugh of a man too pleased with his luck.