Why aren't you at the court ?" "It seemed undignified, boy," answered the Governor.

"We shall know soon enough." "Good God!" exclaimed Harran abruptly, "when I think of what is involved.

Why, Lyman, it's our home, the ranch house itself, nearly all Los Muertos, practically our whole fortune, and just now when there is promise of an enormous crop of wheat.

And it is not only us.

There are over half a million acres of the San Joaquin involved.