That forty's mine yet. It's part uh the homestead. The
meadowland is most all included. That was a preemption claim."
Peaceful spoke slowly, and there was a note of discouragement in
his voice which it hurt Miss Georgie to hear.
"Well, they've got to prove that those claims of theirs are
lawful, you know. And if you've got your patent for the
homestead--you have got a patent, haven't you?" Something in his
face made her fling in the question.
"Y-es--or I thought I had one," he answered dryly. "It seems now
there's a flaw in it, and it's got to go back to Washington and
be rectified. It ain't legal till that's been done."
Miss Georgie half rose from her chair, and dropped back
despairingly. "Who found that mistake?" she demanded.
"Baumberger?"
"Y-es, Baumberger. He thought we better go over all the papers
ourselves, so the other side couldn't spring anything on us
unawares, and there was one paper that hadn't been made out
right. So it had to be fixed, of course.
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