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uQEcMA knew that a crisis had arrived in Danny Reeds
affair the instant the telegraph company called his
d number
She cut in his flash - it must have been accidental for
Danny these time to hear most of the
message take back everything said Marrying Bill Kirkland
tomorrow Molly
Teca stayed in on the connection As night operator Of
twenty years standing in this little privately owned telephone
company she had been able patch up more than
broken romance by having little inside information
Thank you Danny said to the telegraph company and
hung up the receiver licked To himself he added Thanks
for the sock. For the death message
For whole minute Teckas mild blue eyes stared unbe
ievingy Danys Opaque lamp then slowly she pulled out
her plug Even the red hat she going buy at Godans
morning wasn't bright enough to light her gloom
Danny letting wonderful girl get from him for
Tecla considered neither modern nor legitimate
Molly had rich father and Danny didn't have job
IF it's few old oil wells that's bothering Molly
had said last week when she called Danny from Kansas City,
"Few! Your father owns half the oil in Texas
Publicity III bet you he isn't worth than two mil
lion including the Greek in the living room
All the same, Danny had retorted angy he got into
his tenhousand dollar trailer and lit out for the Pacific
Coast darn quick when he you riding with me-
1t was then that Molly had sprung Bill Kirkland Molly
had deliberately coued Danny since that summer day
when she and her father and his business partner good old
lake McFee had arrived at Lake WnneSdukee vacation
bent the deluxe trailer Danny with brand diploma
from the state university earning few occasional
dollars lake guide until of his promises of
job as mining engineer materialized.
Moly's father, Tim McCane, thought he had killed the
nfauaton by removing Molly from Dannys proximity
which made Tecka laugh On the contrary Molly had spent
three hundred dollars long distance calls after she left
Wisconsin, trying to make Danny that the oil wells
needn't matter
There's angle to this haven't told you about yet,
she had said in final desperation, Bill Kirkland.
Teckla had caught the quick catch in Dannys steady
breathing BILL Kikland? Danny didn't ask who Bill was
but Teckla smsed he be the chap who owned the
rest of the oil in Texas.
Il almost married him last winter" Molly said. Hes
darn nice that think of it. And Dad thinks he's tops
There must be money in it, Danny said nastily
"You bet!' Molly had flung back just hastily. And
here's how Bill made it. Rode into Dallas brokendown
cayuse with not cent jeans and millionaire
I'm not interested in OIL Danny said hoty, land III
be millionaire. Mining engineering my line
"Ol, mining engineering You We got to have
what takes Molly had then slammed down the receiver
with an rspttng crack but before she got in the final
taunt This ends my campaign, Smaltown Coodby!'
This had happened six nights ago. and since then
Tecka had hopefully picked every light that twnkled in
on the long distance board But looked though Molly
had meant what she said.
The disappointing climax to this promising affair would
have spoiled Teckas whole night she hadn't had the red
hat to think about Definitely she would buy the hat the
morning She had the money for it tucked away her
purse three dollars and twenty cents in assorted change
saved long period of time New noeum for Mas back