| Show BEGINNING ahe THE STORY FOR NEW READERS roberta antrim beautiful eastern society girl who lives with her uncle william 13 latham known as crooked bill because of his amusing slyness receives a telegram from jaime maguel owner of the rancho valle verde in texas informing tier her her uncle tom antrim has died a violent death at the advice of olenn glenn hackett who Is in love with her roberta plans to go to texas to protect her interests since she Is her uncles sole heir to thousands of sheep which antrim had grazed crazed on land controlled by don jaime don jaime unmarried halt half spanish and halt half irish Is attracted to robertas picture in a magazine antrim Is warned to take his sheep off don jaimes ranch at on once ce antrim ambushes don jaime the young ranch owner Is wounded and toni tom antrim killed on his body are fo found u na instructions to notify miss roberta antrim in the event of his death another telegram tells tell rolerta roberta tier her uncle was killed by jim fliggins don jaimes anglicized name latham tells her his fortune Is in danger and she sha derides to RO go to texas to get kantrims An trims estate to save it crooked bill concocts a scheme he hopes will forward harketes Har ketts courtship don jaime actuated chiefly by his romantic interest in the pictured roberta allows the antrim sheep to continue contin u a to graze on his ranch at the statton station of valle verde roberta meets dingle tom antrim kantrims An trims foreman who points out don jaime as her bar uncles slayer then flees roberts roberta watching jim sees him shoot she ahe thinks at dingle I 1 |
