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"Giving yourself away like that! Why couldn't you fake up a as--"

"Ahat's the difference? The si He thinks I

own it"

"Well, don'the's a sheep Once he--"

Bud suddenly retherum to while away the time when he could

not handily s

disapproving remarks about the rain and the mud and the bottles He

poked his head under the front curtain and into a glum silence The two

men leaned back into the two corners of the wide seat, with their heads

dran into their coat collars and their hands thrust under the

robe Foster reached forward and took a theret us a bottle of good whisky, too," said Foster,

holding out a ser "Be

quick about it though--ant to be traveling Lord, it's cold!"

Bud went into a saloon a few doors up the street, and was back presently

with the bottle and the change There being nothing more to detain them

there, he kicked soe of the running board and cliainst the storht

on to Bakersfield, huh?"

There was a

out of a bottle into an eagerthe back of

his seat and waited, his head turned toward the, anyway?" he asked i