"What in the world do you mean, Patches ?" "Is it true," he asked, "that your father is offering the ranch for sale, and that you are going out of the Williamson Valley life ?" "Yes, but it is not such a sudden move as it seems.

We have often talked about it at home--father and mother and I." "But the move is to be made chiefly on your account, is it not ?" She flushed a little at this, but answered stoutly.

"Yes.

I suppose that is true.

You see, being the only one in our family to have the advantages of--well--the advantages that I have had, it was natural that I should--Surely you have seen, Patches, how discontented and dissatisfied I have been with the life here! Why, until you came there was no one to whom I could talk, even--no one, I mean, who could understand." "But what is it that you want, or expect to find, that you may not have right here ?" Then she told him all that he had expected to hear.