they'll find a place either here
or somewhere else a little further on."

He slipped an arm about her shoulders.

"It's been right lonesome planning without a little partner to talk it
all over with at night," he said. "Have you come back for keeps to
help me make the Three Bar the best outfit in three States? I can't
hold down that job alone."

She nodded and leaned against him.

"That's what they wanted--old Bill and Cal," she said. "But it's nice
that we want it too. I've come for keeps; and the road to the outside
is closed."

They stood and watched the sun pitch over the far edge of the world;
and down in the valley below them the hopeful squatters were looking
for a place to camp.

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