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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