Benefits Forgot a Novel

o give good morrow to the herd that came to the barbed wire fence to observe his happiness with impassive eyes. It was too early to see Margaret but when he had waked at the ranchhouse on his cattle range, where he had spent the past few days, he had found it impossible to remain quietly within doors, and since he must ride it was the nearest thing to seeing her to ride in her direction. The curtains were still down at the windows of the house where Margaret had been staying with Beatrice Vertner for a month. The Vertners occupied the largest dwelling in Maverick, except the brick house which Snell had built since he had made his strike at Aspen its architecture was in the journeyman-carpenter Queen Anne manner common to Western towns which have reached their second stage. The pony, accustomed to stopping, swerved in toward the gate, and Deed was obliged to restrain him, unwillingly. There was no one in sight tomind that he should kisshishand to a certain curtain in the second story but he was obliged to content himself with this. He gave the pony the rein, and went swinging into Maverick by way of Mesa Street...