Chapter 5
THE ROUND-UP"I HAD a letter from Wainright in the mail today, Di," said
Elias Henders to his daughter about a week later. "He is after me
again to put a price on the whole 'shebang.'"
"We could go East and live then, couldn't we?" asked the
girl.
Henders looked at her keenly. There had been just the tiniest
trace of wistfulness in her tone. He crossed the room and put an
arm about her.
"You'd like to go East and live?" he asked.
"I love it here, Dad; but there is so much there that we can
never have here. I should like to see how other people live. I
should tike to go to a big hotel, and to the theaters and opera,
and meet educated people of my own age. I should like to go to
parties where no one got drunk and shot the lights out," she
concluded with a laugh.
"We
