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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
TIGERS DROP FRAY
TO CARRIGAN'S MEN
Detroit Sinks Back Into Third
Place When Defeated by
Boston Red Sox.
FOUR TO THREE IS SCORE

Detroit, Sept. 20.-Detroit's 4 to )
defeate at the hands Of Boston this
afternoon helped the eastern team
materially in its race for the pennant
and cost Detroit second place. Hen
riksen, batting for Carrigan in the
eighth, sent home the winning run
when the score was 3 to ;, his single
scoring Scott, who had walked and
stolen second, after two were out.
Srore.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
LINCOLNS Lose TWO
Bears Defeat Visitors in Both
of the Games of Double
Header.
SECURE TWENTY NINE HITS

Denver, Colo, Sept. 20.-Denver
found Lincolns pitchers for a total
of twenty mine hits in today's double
header and took both games, the first,
IA to and the second, to 2. The
second was called in the seventh by
agreement. Score, first game:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
DENVER.

Twobase hits: Gardner, Cole, Lober
Morse, Shestak, Reed (2), Smith, Shields,
johnson. Three base hits Lloyd, Shestsk.
Home runs: johnson, Shields (2). Bases on
balls. Off Gardner, /. Struck out: BY Ford,
A. by Gardner, 2. Stolen bases Lloyd.
Gardner. Sacrifice hit Cole. Hit by pitched
ball: Williams. Double play: Reed to Lloyd
to Shields. Time. l:3s. Umpire: Mullen.
Score, second game:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

BOSTON
'Batted for Carrigan In eighth.
'Batted for Stanage In sixth.
sBatted for Ehmkc In ninth,

Boston ......0 0 8 o.
Detroit ....,.0 3 0 0 0-3
Two-base hits: Hooper Lewis. Stolen
bases: Scott, Wit. Cobb. Double play Baker
to Heilman to Baker. Bases on balls OFF
Leonard 2: off Ehmke, 4. Hits and earned
runs: Off Leonard, 8 hits and 1 run In nine
innings; OF Ehmke. hits and runs ir
nine innings Struck out: BY Leonard, 6; By
Ehmke, l. Empires: Owens and Evans.
White Sox Defeat Macks.
Chicago. Sept. 20.--Chcago went into sec.
ond place today by defeating Philadelphia
to I. while Boston Won from Detroit. Chi
cago is one and half games behind the
leaders. The locals punched hits off John
son in the first inning for three runs and
continued the bombardment off ssiboid.
Philadelphia hit Russell hard. but Danforth
held the visitors safe. Score:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
No Other Tobaccoph Flavor
That Gives. Them So Much
Enjoyment
SWEET. FRUlTY. SATISFYING

If you.should visit the great to-
acco-growing, tobacco-manufac-
uring centers, you would find that
he men who are the best judges
If tobacco in all its forms chesp
plug. tobacco.
Old Kentucky gives you the. full
benefit of the natural juice of
he leaf-and the juice contains
III the favor, and all the whole
;ome, satisfying elements which
make it so valuable as well as en-
oyable. o.... \.
Old Kentucky is. chewed by
more tobacco experts than any
other brand. Its sweet, mellow
favor pleases Them, and they
know that it is made Of choice,
selected, ripe Burley leaf, in
clean, sanitary factory. ~.
A Ioc plug of Old Kentucky is
fresh and delicious. You'll say
you never tasted its equal. and the
more you chew it the better you'll
like it Get It from your dealer.
-Ad ,ertisement,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
ST. JOSEPH.


Sioux City 80 0 0 0 '-t
Sioux City 80 0 o 2 '-t
Struck out: BY Kinnen, 2; by Grover, I
Bases on balls: OFF Kinnen, 4: off Grover
g. Hit by pitched ball: By Kinnen. Lejeune
by Grover. McCIelland. Stolen bases: Sui
Ivan, McCabe Watson. McClelland. Sacri
flee hits; Sullivan, Fusner 90. Two-ba
hits: Kirkham, Wright, McCabe. Three bast
hits: McClelland, Grover ca, Kirkham
Left on bases: st. Joseph. Z Sioux city. s
Earned runs: st. Joseph. Q; Sioux City, 4
Time: 1:45. Umpire: Kane
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
'Patted for Collins In eighth.
Slated for Barns in ninth.

'Batted for Barns in ninth
Cincinnati 80 0 0 0 5--12
Boston ,......0 D o 0 5 o.
Two-bas hits: Groh (H. Griffith. Chase
f2), Konetchy, Fitzpatrick Kopf. Three
base hits: Wingo. Roush, Konetchy. Home
run: Chase. Double plays: Popf to chase:
Rudolph to Meanwhile to Konetchy; Nc
Kechnie to Chase; Mitchell to Kopf to
Chase Gowdy to Maranville to J. C. Smith
to Meanwhile. Bases on balls: OFF Nit
ichell, I; off Nehf. l. Hits and earned
runs: OFF Mitchell 10 hits and I runs In
nine innings; off Rudolph, hits and
runs In five innings; off Nehf. 2 hits and
l run in three innings; off Barnes, hits
and runs In one inning. Struk OUT BY
Mitchell, /; by Rudolph /; by Nehf, 3.
'Umpires: O'Day and Harrison.
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the government is under contract to

the government is under contract to
furnish at this time of year.
Former laws limited the period of
irrigation to from April to October
!. This is no longer covered by stat
ute, but government officials are
anxious to begin storing water as
promptly as possible to guard against
the possibility OF dry winter season.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
Des Moines Wins
By Thirteen to Nine

Colorado Springs, Colo, Sept. 20
Although the Millionaires hammered
in enough runs in the fourth to tie
the score, Des Moines came bacg in
the fifth and made enough to win, IS
TO 9. Score:
cor npAnn epprNcc
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

Slated for Dashner In seventh.
Stated for Seffel In ninth.
Omaha .... 80 0 0 2-12
Topeka ....0 o 0 0 l.
Three-base hit: Kilduff. TwO-base hits
Kilduff (2), FOrsythe, Miller, Goodwin.
Agler. Stolen bases: Kilduff, Lathrop. Sac
rifice hits: Thompson, Monroe. Sacrifice
flies: Irelan, Gaskell. Struck out: By
Gaskell, 2; by Dashner, 4. Bases on balls:
Off Gaskell, 4; off Sanders, 8; off Dashner,
|; off Saffel, 1. Wild pitch: BY Dashner, 2.
Hit by pitched ball: BY Sanders (Krueger,
SaffeI, smith,. Hits: Off Sanders, 2 In
one-third inning; off Dashner, 8 in six and
two-thirds innings; off saffeli, in two in
nings. Passed ball: Kruger. Umpire:
shannon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
PHILADELPHIA
PITTSBURGH.


Pittsburg ......0 0 0 %
Philadelphia 20 o o o -
Two-base hits Nfehoff, Burns, Bancroft.
Double plays J. Wagner tunassisted); Me
hoff to Bancroft to Luderus. Bases
and earned runs: Off Cooper. hits and
3 runs In five and two-thirds innings; off
Harmon, hits and no runs in two and
one-third innings. Struck out: BY Cooper,
4. Umpires: Eason and RiEler.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
Josies Are Defeated
By Sioux Braves

St. Joseph, Sept. 20.-Sioux City
defeated St. Joseph today, 6 to 3.
Kinnen, local recruit, made a good
showing against the visitors. Score:
SIOJTX CITY
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
Giants Win Fifteenth Straight.

New York, Sept, 20.-New York won It's
fifteenth straight victory here today, de-
feating Chicago to O. with the score
tied. New York scored twice In the seventh
on Hokes double. McCarty's three base hit
and Burns nfield out. Schupp, who shut
out Pittsburgh Monday, ,came back with
one days rest and held Chicago to six
hits and one earned run. Left Fielder Mann
was ordered off the field by Umpire Byron
for arguing Score
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

Stolen bases: Shields. Two-bas hits: Cole,
Home run: Smith, Stevens. Bases on balls;
OF Harrington. 4; OF Halla, 3. Struck out
By Harrington, 2; by Halla. 8. Time, 1909.
Umpire: Mullen.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

l run In eight innings. Hit by pitched ball;
wambsganss, by Ayers Struck out: By
Ayers, .. Wild pitch Boehling. Umpires:
O'Loughlin and Nallin.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

Boston. Sept. 20.-Clncinnatt bombarded
the Boston pitchers for seventeen hits to-
day and won, 10 to L. The visitors made
six doubles, two triples. and a home run
Hal Chase In five times up getting a single.
two doubles and a home run. There were
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

R.H.E.

At Toledo R.H.E.
Toledo ........0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0--2 0
Batteries: seaton and schang; Adams,
Kaiserltng and Wells.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
Standing Of Teams
NAT. LEAGUE.


Yesterdays Results.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Lincoln, s-2; Denver, 1917.
Des Mones. 10. Colorado Springs, 0.
Sioux City 6; st. Joseph, 3.
. Omaha, 10; Topeka, 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati. IL: Boston. I.
st. Louis, 2; Brooklyn, 4.
Chicago, Q: New York, I.
Pittsburgh, OF; Philadelphia. 10.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Boston, I: Detroit, 3.
Washington, 2; Cleveland, Q.
Philadelphia. Z; Chicago. s.
New York, 3: St. Louis I.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Indianapolis, II: Toledo, 2.
Games Today.
Western League-Lincoln at Denver Des
Moines at Wichita, Sioux City at st. Jo-
seph, Omaha at Topeka.
National League--Cincinnau at Boston,
st. Louis at Brooklyn. Chicago at New York.
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia.
American League-Boston at Detroit,
Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at
Chicago, New York at ST. Louis.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
BROOKLYN.
ST. LOUIS
Totals. 80 62413
*Batted for Ames in eighth.

St Louis .....o 0 2 0 o %
Brooklyn 800 / / o l -
Two base hits: J. Miller, Mowrey Stolen
base: Mowrey. Double plays: Bethel to
Snyder; ]. Miller to Bethel to Snyder Olson
to Cutshaw to Daubert. Bases on balls
Off Ames. 8; off Smith, 1. Hits and earned
runs: Off Ames, hits and no runs In
seven innings; off Williams none In one
inning: off Smith. 2. Struck out: BY
Ames, 2. Umpires: KLEIN and Emslie
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
Totals. 81 6e412 0
'Batted for Lavender in eighth.


Two-base hit: Holke. Three-bas hit:
McCarty. Stolen bases: Zeider, Safer, Holke.
Double play: Workman to Safer. Bases on
balls: Off Schupp j. Off Lavender, e..
Hits and earned runs: OFF Lavender hits
and runs In seven innings off eHndrix,
/ hit and no runs in one inning; off schupp
hit. Struck out: By sohupp. s; by
Lavender, 4: by Hendrix, 2. UmpIres
Buron and Qulgley.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

WASHINGTON


TOtaTs. '25 IT IT TOtaIB..ZB Q 34 Ib 2
'Batted for Tyers In ninth.
IRAN for Williams in ninth.
IRAN for Deberry In seventh.
Washington 80 0 0 o o.
Cleveland .....0 0 q o o -
Two-b base hit: Smith Stolen base: Milan.
Double play Graney to O'Neill. Bases on
balls: Off Boehling, E, Off Ayers. g. Hits
and earned runs: OFF Boehlng, 6 hits and
/ run In nine innings; off Ayers, 6 hits and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
Cards Lose TO Brooklyn.

Brooklyn, Sept. 2O--St. Louis lost to
Brooklyn today. to Q. St Louis lost
through errors Not one of Brooklyn's runs
was earned. Air tight fielding behind
Smith held the visitors except in the fourth
when they punched three hits on a pass for
two runs. Daubert had nineteen putouts at
first base. Cutshsw and Olson contributing
clover assists. Score:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
Sport Calendar Todag

BoxinG-Phll Bloom against Leo Johnston.
ten rounds, Mt Brooklyn. Joe Connolly
against Eddie Flynn, ten rounds, at Boston.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

ST. Louis. Sept. ga batting rally by
81. Louis In the eighth. after New York
had tied the score. gave St Louis today's
game. to B. In this inning four singles
and double off Fisher, who replaced Rus
sell after the latter gave way for pinch
hitter, netted four runs.
Two Of the visitors runs were gifts,
while st. Louis earned all their runs. Sis
Ter led the locals with three hits. three
runs and walk In four times at bat
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
BOSTON.
CINCINNATI.
AID II n 4

five fast double plays. Cincinnati making
three of them. Score:
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21
Totals. 80 II 2415 /
'Batted for Russell In seventh.
sBatted for johnson In second.

Philadelphia 20 Q % l . . OF
Chicago .,.....3 . 0 2 s--s
Two-base hits: Pick, strunk. Three base
hits: Schang. Pick. Stolen bases: r. Col
Inns. 'Leibold. JJ.J JColins. Weaver. Bases
on balls: OFF Russell. 2; off seibold. 2. Hits
and earned runs: OFF hutchinson. hits
and three runs In one inning; off Saibold, s
hits and runs In four and one third In
nings; off Parham. hits and no runs In
two and two-thirds innings; off Russell, II
hits and runs In seven innings; off Dan
forth. no hits and no runs In two innings.
Struck out: By Russell, 8; by Danforth. ..
Wild Pitches: Seibold, Russell EMPIRES:
Dineen and Hildehrand
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-09-21

WU UuV WHtN WIHHlHB TUH sCUrtU'
'Batted for Burns In ninth.
Ran for J. Wagner In ninth.
sBatted for Mccarthy In ninth
Pittsburg ....0 0 0 0 ID
Philadelphia "a 0 0 ID
Two-base hits: J. Wagner. Fischer, Me
hoff Whitfield. Stolen bases: Baird.
Schultz. Luderus. Whitfield Cravath. Dou-
BILE plays: Smith to ]. Wagner; Stock to
Niehoff to Luderus. Bases on balls: Off
Mammaux, 4; off Demaree. @ Earned runs,
Mammaux, Q; Demarre 2. Struck out: BY
MammauX, 6; by Demaree, 1. Wild pitch:
Mammaux. Umpires: Rigler and Eason.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-08

said Margarita. 81 am not afraid q
work, Geree. The end of work never
comes. It Is the things that end that
make me afraid" She, too, had felt
the futtering wings OF the unattain-
able. Unknowingly she stood beneath
the shadow Of the strangers purple
city's walls.
The next day Kemp tried honestly
to help Gerry with the filling Of the
soil but the effort was stiIl-born. Kemp
had almost forgotten how to walk and
his high-heeled boots fell foul Of every
hummOck. He wandered of to the
house with solemn face. When Gerry
came in to the midday meal, he found
him with q saddle propped on the
arm OF bench giving the delighted
swaddled heir to Fazenda Flores his
first lesson I'm equitation.
That night they sat again on the
veranda steps but Kemp was not talk
alive. He whitfield stick until 1t dis
appeared in final curly shaving and
then Immediately started on fresh
one.
known Lieber long?" asked Gerry
at last.
"Goin' on two years." replied Kemp.
"Does he live of his stOck?"
Kemp looked up. Haven't you ever
ben up to Lieber'sY
'No," said Gerry, dts two years
since came here and I've never been
Off the place. Lieber's been down here
a couple of times"
Kemp grunted but asked no further
question. "Lieber," he said, Certainly
don't live often his stock-he plays
with 1t. Lieber Is the goatskin king.
Ships 'em by the thousand bales. IL
you or any other man in these parts
was to sell goatskin away FIN Lie
Der, you'd be boycotted. Lteber on
this range Is God-you're fer him or
you're ag'in him an there amt ben
any one ag'ln' him for some spell
now"
"Oh," said Gerry.
"As fer KNOWN him." continued
Kemp, everybody on this roundup
knows Lieber but there amt anybody
knows why he is. Lieber holds ques-
lions and smallpox about alike. He
amt thar when they happen"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-08

"my names Jake Kemp. The rest Of
this outfit is six mules packin' orchids
and the greaser packin' the mules"
That's all right" said Gerry, Il
guess we can put you ur."
He led the way and the pack-train
splashed along after him. The mules
were soon relieved of their burdens
and turned into the pasture. Boni-
facio took the native muleteer away
to his quarters and Gerry and the
stranger passed through the house to
the kitchen.
A patriarchal hospitality came nat
urally to the inmates OF Fazenda
Flores. It was tradition not only on
that plantation but throughout vast
hinterland, where life was rude and
death sudden, to be gentle to the
stranger, to feel him and his beast
and to speed him on in the early morn
Ing. There was but one rule to the
stranger: He must keep his eyes to
the front Jake Kemp had evidently
learned the brief code. He ate raven
0usly, poured down coffee with the
recklessness OF man that draws on
limitless power to sleep, and made
his few remarks to Gerry and to Ger
ry alone.
Gerry was feeling q strange citation
that he strove in vain to account for
This was an American but beyond that
they had nothing in common. New
York and Texas are connected only by
fiction. Perhaps 1t was just curiosity.
Curiosity invaded him. What was a
Texas cowboy doing on the road past
Fazenda Flores with a mule-train of
orchids? AS an opener he declared
himself. MY names Gerry Lansing"
he said. "T've settled down here
''So?' said Kemp, as he drew from
his vest pockets the makings of ciga-
rette. Gerry had seen the yellow pa
pers and the little bags Of faxed to-
bacco. They struck convincingiy the
note of the West. Reckon you're FIN
the States" drawled Kemp as he ae-
complished the cigarette.
YES" said Gerry and added, with
an idea to establishing link, ''like
you"
Reckon you're FIN Moo Yawk," was
Kemp's next deliberate contribution
to the conversation.
With that, talk Jagged. Gerry in
stinctively avoided the question direct
and Kemp vouchsafed nothing more.
Not till Gerry came upon him hitching
up his loads early next morning did
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-08

cooling pools. He did not wish ever
to speak again-ever to think again.
And then Glenn laughed. Her eyes
wrinkled up. There was CLEAN of
even teeth. The wind blew her furs
about her and lit the color In her
cheeks. "How solemn we are after
three years!" she cried. "Three years,
Alan. Aren't you ashamedY
Alan felt sense Of sudden insula-
ton as though she had deliberately
cut the current that had flowed SO
strongly between them. 81 am going
away" he stammered weakly and
waved at an approaching four-wheeler,
piled high with travelling kit and con-
voyed by his hurried but never f1urried
servant.
But Glenn stuck to her guns. Real
lyY' she said with glance at the
loaded cab and with arching eyebrows.
Then her smile burst again. "You
can't expect me to be surprised, can
you? We seem to have a habit of
meeting when you are on the point of
going away. There. You must be in
hurry. Good-by," and she held out
gloved hand.
Alans spirit was ever ready for war
and this, he suddenly perceived, was
war. He braced himself and smiled
too. "Twice hardly amounts to hab-
it." he drawled. He had never drawled
to Glenn before but then Glenn had new
err before taken up the social rapier
with him. Besides" he went on,
there's a difference. Last time you
ran after me-"
Clem's smile trembled, steadied it
self and then fought bravely back.
YES" she said, "yes" And then her
eyes wavered and wandered. She
dropped his hand. "Good-by," she
said, the faintest catch in her voice,
and hurried away to seek ]. 7. |
Alan stood and watched her. He
felt a sinking within him. For a
mess of pottage," he muttered and
then his servant touched his arm anx-
iously and held out his watch, face up,
you'll never make it, Mr.. Wayne"
Alan turned on him but not angrily,
perhaps not, Swithson, and perhaps
yes. You may go back to the fat. I'll
get along all right And with that he
hurled himself at the cab. Double
fare if you make the Battery in ten
minutes" he shouted to the driver and
then settled back in the seat to pom
der.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-08

his cigarette end and stood leaning
with crooked elbow and knee against
veranda pillar. His keen aQuiline
features and deep-set eyes were lit up
by the moonlight and seemed scarcely
to belong to his great, loose-jointed
frame. He was loose-jointed but like
fiail-strong and tough. There's
one thing about the purple cities" he
added, "the daylight always beats you
to 'em jest like in the POM" He
turned and went OFF to bed.
Gerry sat on in the moonlight seized
by strange sadness-the sadness the
spirit feels under the troubled hover
ing Of the unattainable and the mi
rage. Life had queer turns. Why
should cowboy start out to look for
purple cities? 1t was grotesque on the
face of it but, beneath the face of it,
1t was not grotesque.
Margarita stole out to seat herself
beside him. She slipped her hand into
his. She was worried. She was al
ways worried when Gerry's thoughts
were far away. THE Man." she said,
for thus she had christened her baby
boy from the day of his birth, sthe
Man sleeps. He cried for thee and
thou didst not come. So he slept, for
he Is man"
Gerry's thoughts came back to his
little kingdom. He sighed and then
he smiled smile Of content. 1T Is
late then, my dower2" He put his
arm around her. "Let rs so to bed.
for tomorrow there Is work. !"
Tomorrow there = always work, |"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-08

At last the rains came to the valley
and Fazenda Flores. Gerry spent long
hours beside his sluicegate watching
for a rise In the river, but it did not
come. The torrent of rain was local
and he remembered that Lieber had
told him that the doods-the great
foods-came from hundreds of miles
up the river and generally under a
brazen sky. Night, black night, had
fallen with the rain and he was just
turning to seek shelter from the un-
broken downpour when voice raised
In song reached his ears. He waited.
The voice drew nearer. In nasal
tone, which somehow sounded familiar
though it was unknown to him, it was
chanting long string Of doggerel end
ing In an unvarying refrain. Finally
Gerry could make out the long-drawn
tail-end Of the song: comm down the
drawn"
English! American! Cowboy mu-
sic! The impressions came in rapid
succession. Gerry strove to pierce
the darkness. He could hear the near
by splash of careful mules, picking
their way through puddles with f1nick-
ing little steps. He felt shadow in
the darkness and could just see above
it a blur of yellow. Behind 1t, more
shadows. On an impulse he did not
stop to measure, he shouted in English,
"HalIo, therer'
The doggerel was choked off in mid
flight. The yellow blur came to a sud-
den stop and the nasal voice rang out
in quick staccato, Speak again,
stranger, and speak quickv'
cts all right" Gerry laughed back.
'sWhere are you bound for?''
"I'm headed down the drawn lookin'
for chalk line where | en- dry my
feet. What do you know?"
"Can you see the water in the ditch
at your right?'
"Yasser, can. I en- see you, too
"Well," shouted back Gerry, your
eyes beat mine. Follow the ditch I'M
til you come to bridge. I'll meet you
there"
Gerry found the little cavalcade
waiting for him, six pack-mules, ma
tive driver and, towering above them,
a great lanky figure In q yellow oil
skin slicker topped by q broad
brimmed Stetson. Gerry looked over
the outfit as carefully as the darkness
would allow and then said tentatively.
ssThere's house down there IN the
valley" .
SIS the'?" drawled the stranger spit
ting deliberately into the ditch. "Wefl,"
he volunteered after Z fRrthee pause