The story of the "Saunders' place" and of the unscrupulous sharpers who tried to cheat the old ladies who were the sisters of Bob's dead mother, has been told in the third book about Betty Gordon.

This book, "Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil; or The Farm that Was Worth a Fortune," relates the varied experiences of Bob and Betty in the oil section of Oklahoma and the long train of events that culminated in the sale of the Saunders farm for ninety thousand dollars.

The possession of money, though it meant the difference between poverty and debt and great comfort, had, to date, made very little change in the mode of living of Miss Faith and Miss Charity Saunders, or of their nephew.

She divided her time between the Saunders' place and the Watterby farm, where she and Bob had stayed when they first came to Flame City.

Fortunately, Betty had a clean blouse and skirt at hand (most of her wardrobe was in the guest room at the Saunders farm), and Bob borrowed a clean shirt from Will Watterby, in which the boy, being much smaller than the man, looked a little absurd.

Betty had elected to give Clover to the new superintendent's daughter, the girl who was to move with her parents into the old Saunders farmhouse.

Sir Saunders had been a great traveller, and saw these chairs at Sedan, where they were first invented.

"This beef is not done, Saunders," said the baronet to his butler, "or my appetite is not as good as usual to-day.

As Charley Saunders sprang to his feet Chuck yelled, "They got it and sent an answer!

"More than likelyBet Skinny and Old Heck have had a hell of a time making love to 'em," Charley Saunders remarked.

All stood waiting and Old Heck, ill at ease and in a voice that trembled, gave the party formal introduction: "Missus Ophelia Cobb and Miss Carolyn June Dixon," motioning first at the widow and then the girl, "Mister Parker, Mister Bert Lilly, Mister Charley Saunders, Mister Chuck Slithers, Mister Pedro Valencia" indicating each in turn with his hand as he called the names, "I reckon you're already acquainted with Skinny!"

Yonder he is," Charley Saunders said, observing the figure under the shed, "asleep.

" "Skinny's going to have his hands full if he don't look out," Charley Saunders remarked sagely.

Someway she had pictured him a blue-eyed, yellow-haired sort of composite Skinny Rawlins, Chuck, Bert Lilly, Charley Saunders all in one and with the face of a boy in the teens!

When it comes to Uncle Josiah and, well, possibly Parker, you will have to take care of that giddy pair yourself and, incidentally, you might work some on Charley Saunders," mentioning the oldest of the cowboys.

"Ain't you going with us," Charley Saunders asked, "and help skin them steers?"

Pedro and Charley Saunders were the only Quarter Circle KT cowboys participating in the events of the first day of the Rodeo.

He had always had the style, and now he had the strength as well, Saunder's bowling on a true wicket seemed simple to him.

" "Ah, ye villain!" cried Saunders, seizing one of the Esquimaux named Oosuck by the shoulder, and drawing forth an iron spoon which he observed projecting from the end of his boot.

"Come, Mr. Saunders, give us a back.

But Saunders was outvoted.

The point which Saunders failed to prove by argument, was pretty well proved to every one (though not admitted) by the agency of John Frost.

Saunder's little friend, By August Derleth.

Saunder's little friend, By August Derleth.

The fust I knowed about it was when Bill Saunder called Tom Smith a liar, en Tom knocked him down with a stick o' wood.