Overboard with it! It won't keep long this hot weather." Bailey smiled knowingly.

"Didn't I hear the up train whistle as I was comin' along ?" he asked.

"Seems to me I did.

Yes; well, if I ain't mistaken somebody's comin' on that train.

Somebody for you, Cy Whittaker." "Somebody for ME ?" "Um--hum! I can gen'rally be depended on, I cal'late, and when you says to me: 'Bailey, you get me a housekeeper,' I didn't lose much time.