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The Desert of Wheat

CHAPTER II
19/22

"Take my hunch, Dorn." The strangers passed on down the road without looking back.
"Wonder where they'll sleep to-night ?" muttered Dorn.
Anderson rather sharply asked his driver what the two men wanted.

And the reply he got was that they were inquiring about work.
"Did they speak English ?" went on the rancher.
"Well enough to make themselves understood," replied the driver.
Dorn did not get a good impression from the shifty eyes and air of taciturnity of Mr.Anderson's man, and it was evident that the blunt rancher restrained himself.

He helped his daughter into the car, and then put on his long coat.

Next he shook hands with Dorn.
"Young man, I've enjoyed meetin' you, an' have sure profited from same," he said.

"Which makes up for your dad! I'll run over here again to see you--around harvest-time.


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