"I'd harness my team and start for the range right now." The woman looked at her husband.

"That's my notion, Tom; you'd better go," she said, and turned to Sadie.

"It would hit us hard if Wilkinson's bill got much longer and he let us down." Sadie left them and went to a new store farther up the street, after which she called on an implement dealer who occasionally speculated in real estate and mortgages, and one or two others.

She knew them all, and they knew that on business matters her judgment was sound.

It was plain that they were suspicious about Wilkinson, but, so far, undecided what to do.