22/25 And I glimpsed, as through a golden haze, a future wherein that page would be much charged, and crossed off, and charged again. He treated us around from behind the bar, and I decided that he had arithmetically evened things up handsomely. Pat, who had been shovelling coal all day, had gone home, and Clam had gone upon the Reindeer to cook supper. And there I met Soup Kennedy for the second time, and Bill Kelley. And Smith, of the Annie, drifted in--he of the belt-buckled revolvers. |