Swearengen Jones,
Butte, Mont.
No doubt you could do it for less than six thousand. Montana is regarded as the best grazing country in the world, but we don't eat that sort of stuff in New York. That's why it costs more to live here.
Just before leaving his apartments for Miss Drew's home he received this response from faraway Montana:
Montgomery Brewster, New York.
We are eight thousand feet above the level of the sea. I suppose that's why it costs us less to live high.
"I was beginning to despair, Monty," said Miss Drew, reproachfully, when he had come down from the height of his exasperation and remembered that there were things of more importance.
The light in his eyes brought the faintest tinge of red to her cheeks, and where a moment before there had been annoyance there was now a feeling of serenity. For a moment the silence was fraught with purpose. Monty glanced around the room, uncertain how to begin. It was not so easy as he had imagined.
