Waifs and Strays [Part 1‪]‬

A trestle burns, and somewhere beyond it Tonia Weaver’s Easter hat is stranded on a train—just when she needs it most.

In the ranch country of South Texas, Easter means new finery, a ride to Cactus, and a chance to outshine the neighbors. Tonia refuses to make the trip without her straw hat trimmed with red roses, and two smitten ranchmen, Wells Pearson and Thompson Burrows, suddenly have a twenty-eight-mile ride ahead of them. O. Henry turns a fashion emergency into a brisk contest of horses, pride, and courtship, with the dry wit of a tale told under the wide Texas sky. But with only one hat shop in reach, which suitor will arrive first—and what will Tonia make of his offering?

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