She proposes to open a store and sell liquor and cigars, which she serves herself, in the broken-down tienda which was regularly given to her people by the Spanish grantee of the land we're squatting on.

It's not her fault but ours if we've adopted a line of rules, which don't agree with hers, to govern the settlers on HER land, nor should she be compelled to follow them.

Nor because we justify OUR squatting here, on the ground that the Spanish grant isn't confirmed yet, can we forbid her squatting under the same right." "But look at the moral question, Brace.

Consider the example; the influence of such a shop, kept by such a woman, on the community! We have the right to protect ourselves--the majority." "That's the way the lynchers talk," returned Brace.

"And I'm not so sure about there being any moral question yet.