Your bunch won't have to listen to one man, only--here's half a dozen ready and waiting to talk." Miss Hallman was impressed.

A few of the closest homeseekers she beckoned and introduced to the perspiring Happy Family--mostly feminine homeseekers, of whom there were a dozen or so.

The men whom the hotel had sent down with rigs waited impatiently, and the unintroduced male colonists stared at the low rim of Lonesome Prairie and wondered if over there lay their future prosperity.
When the Happy Family finally made their escape, red-faced and muttering threats, Andy Green had disappeared, and no one knew when he went or where.

He was not in Rusty Brown's place when the Happy Family went to that haven and washed down their wrongs in beer.

Pink made a hurried trip to the livery stable and reported that Andy's horse was gone.
They were wondering among themselves whether he would have the nerve to go home and await their coming--home at this stage of the game meaning One Man coulee, which Andy had taken as a homestead and desert claim and where the Happy Family camped together until such time as their claim shacks were habitable.