"It's hard luck that your band ran down just when the price of mutton and wool is going up.

So you're letting the ranch slide ?" "Yes, I can't pay the mortgage; Menocal would foreclose at once if I tried to stay.

Last time I was in town he asked me about paying it off and when I told him I shouldn't be able to do that, he said he'd have me deed it back to him to save foreclosure proceedings.

And he was smiling, too.

He knew all the time that he'd get the ranch back; and when he does, he'll sell it to some other sucker." "Both of us have wished a hundred times that we'd never sold our Illinois farm to come here," Mrs.Stevenson said, plaintively.