He's going to sell out and quit.

Uncle Will told me night before last when I went home to see about the shipping." "Reid is going to sell!" exclaimed Patches; and there was a curious note of exultation in his voice which Phil did not hear.

Neither did Phil see that his companion was smiling to himself under cover of the darkness.
"It's that damned Professor Parkhill that's brought it about," continued the cowboy bitterly.

"Ever since Kitty came home from the East she has been discontented and dissatisfied with ranch life.

I was all right when she went away, but when she came back she discovered that I was nothing but a cow-puncher.