[The Seventh Man by Max Brand]@TWC D-Link bookThe Seventh Man CHAPTER XIII 8/12
I felt it on the wind when I was comin' up the pass." "If you--oh, Dan, you're breaking my heart!" "Stand out of the door." "Wait till the morning." "Don't you see I can't wait ?" "One hour, ten minutes.
Buck--Lee Haines--" She could not finish, but Buck Daniels stepped closer, trying to make a smile grow on his ashen face. "Another minute, Dan, and I'll tell a man you've forgotten me." Barry pivoted suddenly as though uneasy at finding something behind him, and Daniels winced. "Hello, Buck.
Didn't see you was here.
Lee Haines? Lee, this is fine." He passed from one to the other and his handshake was only the elusive passage of his fingers through their palms.
Haines shrugged his shoulders to get rid of a weight that clung to him; a touch of color came back to his face. "Look here, Dan.
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