"Starr, of the Desert" by B. M. Bower Helen May and her brother Vic have moved to the New Mexico desert after their father arranges to buy property there in order to save Helen May from consumption. It is here that Helen meets Starr, a country man who turns out to be more than just some desert drifter. He is actually a Secret Service man working undercover as a stock buyer while he tries to find out as much as he can about a suspected plot of treason.