Don't let your new job spoil your appetite." When Tom and Harry rode into town at noon the following day they beheld a scene of great activity at the site of the destroyed Cactus House.

All the blackened debris had been carted away during the morning by a large force of men.

Now, derricks lay in place, to be erected in the afternoon.

A steam shovel had been all but installed and a large stationary engine rested on nearly completed foundations.
George Ashby, proprietor of the Mansion House, who had dared, during the last two days, to show himself a little more openly on the streets of Paloma, halted just as Tom and Harry stepped out of the automobile to look over the scene of Foreman Griggs's morning labors.
"Looks as if the Cactus House might be rebuilt," remarked Ashby, burning with curiosity.
"No," said Tom briefly.
"Carter is going to change the name ?" inquired Ashby.
"No.

Carter doesn't own this land any more." "He doesn't own the land ?" Ashby asked.