st run out. There's a high tract lying between the Bear Paws
and--do you know where the Flying U ranch is?"

"About where it is--yes."

"Well, it's right up there on that plateau--bench, you call it out here.
There are several thousand acres along in there that we're locating
settlers on this spring. We're just waiting for the grass to get nice
and green, and the prairie to get all covered with those blue, blue wind
flowers, and the meadow larks to get busy with their nests, and then
we're going to bring them out and--" She spread her hands again. It
seemed a favorite gesture grown into a habit, and it surely was more
eloquent than words. "These prairies will be a dream of beauty, in a
little while," she said. "I'm to watch for the psychological time to
bring out the seekers. And if I could just interest you, Mr. Green, to
the extent of being somewhere around Dry Lake, with a good team that
you will drive for hire and some samples of oats and dry-land spuds and
stuff that you raised on your claim--" She eyed him sharply for one so
endearingly feminine. "Would you do it? There'd be a salary, and besides
that a commission on each doubter you landed. And I'd just love to have
you for one of my assistants."

"It sure sounds good," Andy flirted with the proposition, and let his
eyes soften appreciably to meet her last sentence and the tone in which
she spoke it. "Do you think I could get by with the right line of talk
with the doubters?"

"I think you could," she said, and in her voice there was a cooing
note. "Study up a little on the right dope, and I think you could
convince--even me."

"Could I?" Andy Green knew that cooing note, himself, and one a shade
more provocative. "I wonder!"

A man came down the aisle at that moment, gave Andy a keen glance and
went on with a cigar between his fingers. Andy scowled frankly, sighed
and straightened his shoulders.

"That's what I call hard luck," he grumbled, "got to see that man before
he gets off the train--and the h--worst of it is, I don't know just what
station he'll get off at." He sighed again. "I've got a deal on," he
told her confidentially, "that's sure going to keep me humping if I pull
loose so as to go in with you. How long did you say?"

"Probably two weeks, the way spring is opening out here. I'd want you
to get perfectly familiar with our policy and the details of our scheme
before they land. I'd want you to be familiar with that tract and be
able to show