If you will wait for half an hour--you are going home, I take it ?" "That's where I'm sure headed, and we can ride out together, easy as not.

We're through for a couple uh weeks or so, and I'm hazing the boys home to bust a few hosses before we strike out again.

I guess I'll just keep the camp running down by the creek.

Going to be in town long enough for me to play a game uh pool ?" "I was going right out again, but there's no particular hurry," said Dill, looking over his letters.

"Were you going to play with some one in particular ?" "No--just the first gazabo I could rope and lead up to the table," Billy told him, sliding off the counter where he had been perched.
"I wouldn't mind a game myself," Dill observed, in his hesitating way.
In the end, however, they gave up the idea and started for home; because two men were already playing at the only table in Hardup, and they were in no mind to wait indefinitely.
Outside the town, Dill turned gravely to the other, "Did you say you were intending to camp down by the creek, William ?" he asked slowly.
"Why, yes.