"Well anyway, we snaked them out of the sand, didn't we, Lite ?" "We sure did," Lite chuckled.

"They don't seem thankful, but I guess they ain't any worse off than they was before.

Anyway, it serves them right.

They've no business here acting fresh." Lite said that because he was not given the power to peer into the future, and so could not know that Fate herself had sent Robert Grant Burns into their lives; and that, by a somewhat roundabout method, she was going to use the Great Western Film Company and Jean and himself for her servants in doing a work which Fate had set herself to do..