Chapter 7
EXIT WAINRIGHTA WEEK or ten days after Elias Henders' funeral the Wainright
buckboard drew into the Bar Y ranch yard and the Wainrights, senior
and junior, alighted and approached the house. They found Diana in
the office working on the books, which she had kept for her father
when they were without a bookkeeper, which was the case at
present.
She greeted them politely, but without marked cordiality. It was
the first time that she had encountered either of them since her
father's death, having refused to see the younger man on her return
to the camp with Elias Hender's body.
"We been calc'latin' to drive ever for several days past, Miss
Henders," said the elder man. "Thought mebby you might want some
advice or suthin'. Anything we can do, we're at both at your
servi
