We both believe your presence will quiet the cattlemen as well as Talfeather and his band.

Will you accept ?" As Harold read, his body uplifted and his eyes grew stern.

"See here, Mary, what do you think of this ?" and he read the letter and explained the situation.

She, too, became tense with interest, but, being a woman who thought before she spoke, she remained silent.
Harold, after a moment, arose from his chair, gaunt and unsteady as he was.

"That's what I'm fitted for, Mary.