It was a difficult object to pick up again.

Heman groped for it in a blind, strangely inadequate way.

Yet he wished to recover it very much.
"Wait! wait!" he shouted anxiously.

"I--I--I dropped the--Are you there, Whittaker?
Are you--Oh! yes! I didn't--Did you say--er--'Frisco ?" "Yes, San Francisco, California.

I've been West on a little cruise.
Had an interestin' time.