Show BEGINNING THE S STORY FOR NEW READERS roberta noberta antrim eastern society girl who ilves with her uncle william B D latham known as crooked bill because of his amusing slyness rec receives elves a tel telegram from aalmo maguel owner of the rancho valle verde in texas her her uncle tom antram haa bas died a violent death tat at the advice of glenn hackett who la Is in lovo love with her roberta plans to go to texas to protect her interests since she la Is her uncles sole heir to thousands of sheep which antrim had grazed on land controlled by don jaime don aalmo unmarried halt half spanish and halt irish Is attracted to robertas picture in a magazine antrim Is warned to ti take his sheep oft off don jaeme balmes s ranch at once antrim ambushes don jaime the young ranch owner Is wounded and tom antrim wiled killed on his body ure found instructions to notify miss Ito roberta barta antrim in the event of his death another telegram tells ro berta her uncle wpm killed by jim gains don cairne s anglicized name latham tells her his fortune Is in danger ar and d she delbes to go eo to texas to tt Anti lins estate to kave it crooked dill bill concocts a scheme he hopes will forward Hae hetts courtship don jaime act actuated anted chiefly by hla his romantic interest in the pictured roberta noberta allows the antrim sheep to continue to graze on hla ranch at the station of valle verde Ro roberta borta meets dingle tom An kantrims Antrim trims 8 foreman who points out don jaime as her unc unclear leit slayer flayer then flees roberta jim fliggins sees him shoot she thinks at dingle sho she berates him soundly and jimmy hurries off ostensibly to tell don jaime of her arrival then the girl finda ands higgins and to be one and tho the same at don valnea invitation she stays at his ranch |