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"Well, we'll just browse along for ested cheerfully, and went back to the index But first she drew a lead pencil froh her hair, andthe lead on her tongue for ericultural Claily from the index, and turned hastily to see as to be said about it It happened to be another decision rendered in a letter, and they jubilated together over the senti you, Grant," she said suddenly, after another long ht Locaters of Placer Ground May Convey to One Party'--and Bauer's certainly that party!--'Who Can Secure Patent for One Hundred and Sixty Acres' We'll just read up on that, and find out for sure what the conditions are Now, here"--she had found the page quickly--"listen to this: "'I have to state that if eight bona-fide locaters'

("Whether they're that re located twenty acres, in accordance with the congressional rules and regulations, should convey all their right, title, and interest in said locations to one person, such person ht apply for a patent--'

"And so on into tiresoer's awfully stupid, to even atte to stand on 'Goes with the patent'--that sounds nice to ht jumpers down there" She fortified herself with another piece of candy "All you need," she declared briskly, "is a good lawyer to take this up and see it through"

"You see rather intently upon her face, and s as they did so

"I can read what's in the book," she rees as if she were consciously holding the his look "But it will take a lawyer to see the case through the courts And letvery ehtly "Many a case as strong as this has been lost, just by legal quibbling and ignorance of how to handle it properly Many a case without a leg to stand on has been won, by smooth work on the part of some lawyer Now, I'll just jot dohat they'll have to do, and prove, if they get that land--and look here, Mr Man, here's another thing to consider Maybe Bauet a patent Maybe hethat he'll sell out cheap rather than fight the thing to a finish Because this can be appealed, and taken up and up, and reopened because of some technical error--oh, as Jenny Wren says in--in--"