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Be it said here , however , that Rosalie was not long in settling many of the speculators straight in their minds . It seemed improbable that it should not be as they had thought and hoped . The news soon reached Blootch Peabody and Ed Higgins , and , both eager to revive a blighted hope , in high spirits , called to see Rosalie on the same night . It is on record that neither of them uttered two dozen words between eight o'clock and ten , so bitterly was the presence of the other resented . March came , and with it , to the intense amazement of Anderson Crow , the ever-mysterious thousand dollars , a few weeks late . On a certain day the old marshal took Rosalie to Boggs City , and the guardianship proceedings were legally closed . Listlessly she accepted half of the money he had saved , having refused to take all of it .