Lastly, they fenced in the graves.
"I reckon I'll hitch up an' drive back home," said Mrs.Jacobs, when she returned to the cabin.

"I've much to do an' plan.

Probably I'll go to my mother's home.

She's old an' will be glad to have me." "If I had any place to go to I'd sure go," declared Esther Isbel, bitterly.
Gaston Isbel heard this remark.

He raised his face from his hands, evidently both nettled and hurt.
"Esther, shore that's not kind," he said.
The red-haired woman--for she did not appear to be a girl any more--halted before his chair and gazed down at him, with a terrible flare of scorn in her gray eyes.
"Gaston Isbel, all I've got to say to you is this," she retorted, with the voice of a man.