Thinking, too--as he confided to the Little Woman--that Los Angeles looked pretty good, after all.

He was resolved to lead henceforth a blameless life.

It was time he settled down, Casey declared virtuously.

His last trip into the desert was all wrong, and he wanted you to ask anybody if Casey Ryan wasn't ready at any and all times to admit his mistakes, if he ever happened to make any.

He was starting in fresh now, with a new deal all around from a new deck.