There'll be other folks in a tight place if the rain doesn't come; but it won't make much difference to you, Wilkinson.

I guess the storekeepers have you fixed now." Wilkinson frowned.

He knew the remark was prompted by malice because he had won the money his companion had lost.

The fellow, however, had not exaggerated.

His creditors had recently stopped supplies and made demands with which he was unable to comply, and since they were obviously consulting each other, it looked as if he would be sold up and forced to leave the neighborhood.