2/25 "What are we going to do, Johnny? And then letting him get away, like that--" "Sandy's at the pasture fence, I'd be willing to bet; but at that it's going to be the devil's own job to catch him, me afoot. And he wouldn't let you on him if I did. I guess it's a case of ride the sky or walk, Mary V." "Then we better be stepping, bo, before the wind comes up, as I've noticed it's liable to, late in the forenoon. You dig up the gas, and I'll take her home." "Thank you, I do not wish to trouble you, Mr.Halliday.Johnny can take me, if anybody--" "Who--him ?" Bland Halliday's smile was twisted far to the left. |