Pat Carrigan, my contractor, and I came to the capital at once to discuss the affair with the Board.

The news was--well, a good deal of a facer." She nodded.
"It would be," were her words.

"You'll need more workmen and horses, of course." "All I can get.

Pat went to Denver last night, and the labour agencies there and at Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Santa Fe, El Paso, and places farther east doubtless by now are rounding up men.

We picked up an idle grading outfit yesterday in Santa Fe; it will be loaded and started by to-night." Her face became a little rueful.
"That all sounds so big that I hesitate to make the offer I had in mind when I asked," she said.
"What was it, Miss Graham ?" "Father has twelve or fifteen teams and some scrapers used on the ranch.