I had that idea all along that you've had this summer: getting hold of the Lazy A and fixing it up so your dad would have a place to come back to.

I never said anything, because talking don't come natural to me like it does to some, and I'd rather do a thing first and then talk about it afterwards if I have to.
"So I hung on to what money I had saved up along; I was going to get me a bunch of cattle and fix up that homestead of mine some day, and maybe have a little home." His eyes went surreptitiously to her face, and lingered there wistfully.

"So after the trouble I buckled down to work and saved a little faster, if anything.

It looked to me like there wasn't much hope of doing anything for your dad till his sentence ran out, so I never said anything about it.

Long as Carl didn't try to sell it to anybody else, I just waited and got together all the money I could.