"And you licked the preacher that night, and--so the tale runneth--like to have put the whole town on the jinks.

Is there anything in particular you'd like to do to me ?" "I just want you to tell me who I married--if you can." Ford reddened as the other stared, but he did not stop.

"I was so darned full that night I let the whole business ooze out of my memory, and I haven't been able to--" Rock was leaning over the saddle horn, howling and watery-eyed.

Ford looked at him with a dawning suspicion.
"It did strike me, once or twice," he said grimly, "that the whole thing was a put-up job.

If you fellows rigged up a josh like that, and let it go as far as this, may the Lord have mercy on your souls, for I won't!" But Rock could only wave him off weakly; so Ford waited until he had recovered.