We might give him a place ?" Mr.Halbrook nodded.
Mr.Wickersham sat down and wrote a letter to Keith, saying that he wished to see him in New York on a matter of business which might possibly turn out to his advantage.

He also wrote a letter to General Keith, suggesting that he might possibly be able to give his son employment, and intimating that it was on account of his high regard for the General.
That day Keith met Squire Rawson on the street.

He was dusty and travel-stained.
"I was jest comin' to see you," he said.
They returned to the little room which Keith called his office, where the old fellow opened his saddle-bags and took out a package of papers.
"They all thought I was a fool," he chuckled as he laid out deed after deed.

"While they was a-talkin' I was a-ridin'.

They thought I was buyin' cattle, and I was, but for every cow I bought I got a calf in the shape of the mineral rights to a tract of land.