Read this excerpt from The Squatter and the Don. How does the author build suspense in the plot? And so it was. The stakes having been placed, Darrell felt satisfied. Next day he would have the claim properly filed, and in due time a surveyor would measure them. All would be done “according to law,” and in this easy way more land was taken from its legitimate owner. The author accelerates the here to build suspense as William Darrell heads toward an inevitable conflict with
