21/46 This had occurred often enough for some of his acquaintances in Gumbolt to rally him about it. "He's run J.Quincy off the track, and he's still in the ring. He's layin' low; but that's the time to watch a mountain cat. He's on your track." Mr.Plume, who was always very friendly with Keith, declared that it was not Bluffy, but Keith, who had run him off the track. "It's a case where virtue has had its reward," he said to Keith. |