He was about to lay her on the bare ground, for want of a better place, when he glimpsed Mose running heavily across the bridge, and went hurriedly to meet him.
"Here! You take her down and put her in one of the bunks, Mose," he commanded, when Mose confronted him, panting a good deal because of his two hundred and fifty pounds of excess fat and a pair of down-at-the-heel slippers which hampered his movements appreciably.

Mose looked at the girl and then at his two hands.
"I can't take her," he lamented.

"I got m'hands full of aigs!" Ford's reply was a sweep of the girl's inert figure against Mose's outstretched hands, which freed them effectually of their burden of eggs.

"You darned chump, what's eggs in a case like this ?" he cried sharply, and forced the girl into his arms.

"You take her and put her on a bunk.