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So they caht of the ainst the mossy rock As Lescott looked up, he

closed the case of his watch, and put it back into his pocket with a

smile

"Snappy work, that!" he called out "Just thirty-three minutes I

didn't believe it could be done"

Saner, only

the ingrained dictates of the country's hospitable code kept out of his

eyes a gleam of scorn for this frail member of a sex which should be

stalwart

"Howdy?" he said Then he added suspiciously: "What ave the odyssey of his wanderings, since he had rented awhere thewherever he found a hospitable roof at the co

"Ye come from over on Crippleshin?" The boy flashed the question with

a sudden hardening of the voice, and, when he was affirly into the stranger's

face

"Where'd ye put up last night?"

"Red Bill Holl House Fork; do you

know the place?"

Saht"