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The two rose and shuffled toward the door "We'll get you, you colledge Lizzy," threatened Dopey Charlie, "an' we'll get that phoney punk, too"

"'And speed the parting guest,'" quoted Bridge, firing a shot that splintered the floor at the crook's feet When the two hoboes had departed the others huddled again close to the stove until Bridge suggested that he and The Oskaloosa Kid retire to another roo; but she insisted that it was not wet enough to matter since she had been covered by a robe in the automobile until just a moment before she had been hurled out

"Then, after you are ware, "you can step into this other roos, for there's no question but that we are wet enough"

At the suggestion the kid started for the door "Oh, no," he insisted; "it isn't worth while I aet out on the road I'll be all right I--I--I like wet clothes," he ended, lae the matter "Very well," he said; "you probably knohat you like; but as for ood and dry"

The girl had already quitted the rooe shook his head "I'll bet the little beggar never ay from his ht of undressing in front of a strangeas The Oskaloosa Kid! Bless ular, natural born one"

Bridge found that his clothing had dried to soht; so, after a brisk rub, he put on the warh some were still a trifle damp he felt infinitely more comfortable than he had for irl and the youth standing in the sunshine of a bright, new day They were talking together in awhat the two had found of so great coed upon the relative merits of ham and bacon as a breakfast dish

"Oh, e, "For a little bite of bacon, "A hunk of bread, a littleof brew; "I'm tired of seein' scenery, "Just leadmore than only air to chew"