Are there desirable homesites still to be found in the valley, and does the inflation of land at the present minute put it out of my reach ?" "Well, that is on a par with the average question asked a lawyer," answered Gilman, "but part of it I can answer definitely and at once.
I think every acre of land suitable for garden or field cultivation is taken.

I doubt if there is much of the orchard land higher up remaining and what there is would command a rather stiff price; but if you would be content with some small plateau at the base of a mountain where you could set any sort of a house and have--say two or three acres, mostly of sage and boulders and greasewood and yucca around it." "Why in this world are you talking about stones and sage and greasewood ?" cried Linda.

"Next thing they'll be asking about mountain lions and rattlesnakes." "I beg your pardon," said Gilman, "I fear none of us has remembered to present Miss Linda as a coming naturalist.

She got her start from her father, who was one of the greatest nerve specialists the world ever has known.

She knows every inch of the mountains, the canyons and the desert.