And then, too, it is not always wise to take a direct route to one's destination.

Not--always." He slowed for a rickety bridge and added negligently, "We've made pretty fair time." "I'd say we have.

You've been doing fifty part of the time." "And part of the time I haven't.

From here on it's rough." From there on it was that, and more.

There had been a rain storm which the asphalt had long forgotten but the dirt road recorded with ruts and chuck-holes half filled with mud.