But, you see--honey--well, you see, we've just naturally got to be nice to strangers, you know." When they had laughed at this, Kitty explained to that Dean how Mrs.Manning was the Helen Wakefield with whom she had been such friends at school, and that, after the Mannings' outing in Granite Basin, Helen was to visit Williamson Valley.
"Campin' out in Granite Basin, heh ?" said the Dean to Stanford.

"I reckon you'll be seein' some o' my boys.

They're goin' up into that country after outlaw steers next week." "I hope so," returned Stanford.

"Helen has been complaining that there are no cowboys to be seen.

I pointed out Phil Acton, but he didn't seem to fill the bill; she doesn't believe that he is a cowboy at all." The Dean chuckled.