I've got our clients to protect--and besides that I shall dearly love to get even.

Oh, you'll squeal for mercy, believe me!" She touched up the horses with her whip and went bumping away over the tough sod.
"Wow!" ejaculated Andy, looking after her with laughter in his eyes.
"She's sure one mad lady, all right.

But shucks!" He turned and galloped off toward the farthest claim, which was Happy Jack's and the last one to be furnished with a lawful habitation.
He was lucky.

The Happy Family were foregathered there, wrangling with Happy Jack over some trifling thing.

He joined zealously in the argument and helped them thrash Happy Jack in the word-war, before he came at his errand.
"Say, boys, we'll have to get busy now," he told them seriously at last.
"Florence Grace is onto us bigger'n a wolf--and if I'm any judge, that lady's going to be some fighter.