When they were gone Billy turned to Arthur Ross.
“Go up and tell Jennie to come down and start her dream on a real piece of land. Tell her I want her to pardon me for switching papers on her while she was looking at her pies. And thank her for that piece of pie.”
And when Arthur Ross was gone he took a stub pencil from his pocket and wrote upon the side of the pump house:
Where there’s more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there’s more of giving, and less of buying,
Where a man makes friends without half trying,
That’s where the West begins.
“Gosh,” he said, “a girl who sticks up a piece like that sure needs a square deal. It’s real poetry. I’d like to meet the man who wrote it.”
THE END
Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the October 20, 1928 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine.