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`` All right ; that 's a bargain . '' The next morning , after their arrival at Crabtree , Fred , Terry and Evelyn were kept busy shaking hands with their friends . As the news spread through the city fully a score of young ladies called at the hotel to see Evelyn , for she had the happy faculty of making and retaining friends wherever she went . Fred and Terry , though , at noon , took leave of her and told her to enjoy herself until they came back , as they were going down to the ranch and begin at once to fix up things so that she could he comfortable . Jack happened to be at the water tank when the engine of the freight train stopped there to take a drink , and he gave a regular Indian war-whoop when he saw the boys alight . He hugged both of them as they climbed down from the engine , and fairly danced a jig in his delight at seeing them . Terry looked around for the big house that Jack had been building for his mother and sweetheart .