As fast as his bare feet--with a stone bruise on one heel--would carry him he sped to Solly Gumble's.

Yet not with wholly selfish intent.

A section of plug tobacco, charmingly named Peach and Honey, was purchased for a quarter as a gift to Bill Bardin of the ice wagon.

Another quarter secured three pale-brown cigars, with gay bands about their middles, to be lavished upon the hero, Starling Tucker..