A lot of nonsense that left a laugh behind and the idea that Miss Allen at least did not disapprove of harassing claim-jumpers.

Andy Green was two hundred per cent.

more cheerful after that, and his brain was more active and his determination more fixed.

For all that he stared after them thoughtfully.
"She winked at us--if I've got eyes in my head.

What do you reckon she meant, Pink ?" he asked when the two riders had climbed over the ridge.
"And what she said about the bold, bad men shooting holes that have to be plugged up--and about liking a nice, smooth atmosphere?
Do you suppose she meant that it's liable to take bold, bad men to clean the atmosphere, or--" "What difference does it make what she meant?
There's jumpers left--two on Bud's place--and he's oary-eyed over it, and was going to read 'em the riot act proper, when I left to come over here.