There are many bitter men here, men who have failed at ranching.

And your father has been wonderfully successful.

Steele has dropped some poison, and it'll spread." Then followed a silence, during which, evidently, the worried Wright bestrode the floor.
"Cousin George, what became of Steele and his prisoner ?" suddenly asked Sally.
How like her it was, with her inquisitive bent of mind and shifting points of view, to ask a question the answering of which would be gall and wormwood to Wright! It amused while it thrilled me.

Sally might be a flirt, but she was no fool.
"What became of them?
Ha! Steele bluffed the whole town--at least all of it who had heard the mayor's order to discharge Snell," growled Wright.
"He took Snell--rode off for Del Rio to jail him." "George!" exclaimed Diane.

"Then, after all, this Ranger was able to arrest Snell, the innocent man father discharged, and take him to jail ?" "Exactly.