[The Phantom Herd by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookThe Phantom Herd CHAPTER ONE 11/18
Numbers and salaries we'll leave to you. Go as far as you like; it's a cinch you'll get what you want if you're allowed to go after it." So here was Luck, arriving in due time at the railroad.
He said good-by to Young-Dog-Howls-At-The-Moon who had ridden with him, and whose kingly bearing and clean-cut features and impressive pantomime made him a popular screen-Indian, and sat down upon a baggage truck to smoke a cigarette while he waited for the westbound train. Young-Dog-Howls-At-The-Moon he watched meditatively until that young man had bobbed out of sight over a low hill, the pony Luck had ridden trailing after at the end of the lead-rope.
Luck's face was sober, his eyes tired and unsmiling.
He had done that much of his task: he had returned the Indians, and automatically wiped a very large item of expense from the accounts of the Acme Film Company.
He did not like to dwell, however, on the cost to his own pride in his work. The next job, now that he was actually face to face with it, looked not so simple.
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