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At a lunch wagon down near the water front, Bud stopped and bought two

"hot dog" sandwiches and aof hot coffee boiled with ar "O-oh, boy!" he ejaculated

gleefully when he set his teeth into biscuit and hot ha car, he ate and drank until he could eat and

drink noof bananas on the seat beside hih the drizzle for the big

guine of

a waiting through train he saw it, and backed in against the curb,

pointing the car's radiator toward the mainland He had still half an

hour to wait, and he buttoned on the curtains of the car, since a wind

fro the drizzle slantwise; moreover it

occurred to him that Foster would not object to the concealh Oakland Then he listlessly ate a banana while

he waited

The hoarse siren of a ferryboat bellowed through the ine, throttled it down to his liking, and left it to war lazily that he wished he

owned this car For the first ti over with his trouble Marie and all the bitterness she had

coround of hispainful in his life