Certainly she never came back.
That, of course, simplified matters considerably for Florence Grace--and for the Happy Family as well.

For at the preliminary hearing of H.J.
Owens for the high crime of kidnapping, that gentleman proceeded to unburden his soul in a way that would have horrified Florence Grace, had she been there to hear.

Remember, I told you that his eyes were the wrong shade of blue.
A man of whom you have never heard tried to slip out of the court room during the unburdening process, and was stopped by Andy Green, who had been keeping an eye on him for the simple reason that the fellow had been much in the company of H.J.Owens during the week preceding the fire and the luring away of the Kid.

The sheriff led him off somewhere--and so they had the man who had set the prairie afire.
As is the habit of those who confess easily the crimes of others, H.J.
Owens professed himself as innocent as he consistently could in the face of the Happy Family and of the Kid's loud-whispered remarks when he saw him there.

He knew absolutely nothing about the fire, he said, and had nothing to do with the setting of it.