It increases the business of the country--the traffic, the freights, the merchants' business, everything." Andy puckered his eyebrows and looked out of the window upon a great stretch of open, rolling prairie, clothed sparely in grass that was showing faint green in the hollows, and with no water for miles--as he knew well--except for the rivers that hurried through narrow bottom lands guarded by high bluffs that were for the most part barren.

The land was there, all right.

But-- "What I can't see," he observed after a minute during which Miss Florence Hallman studied his averted face, "what I can't see is, where do the settlers get off at ?" "At Easy street, if they're lucky enough," she told him lightly.

"My business is to locate them on the land.

Getting a living off it is THEIR business.