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It’s his wife. [ and the rise astonished.] Sure! I got her outside in the buckboard an’ she’s madder’n hell because Tony didn’t meet her. She’s some girl, too. I never heard the beat!. Lands a girl like that an’ don’t even take the trouble to [The other two are already at the windows.]

Where’d you find her?

I finds her pacin’ up and down the platform an’ I gives her a lift. I sure do hate to see a good-lookin’ girl cry—an’ she sure was cryin’. I reckoned Tony couldn’t get the Ford started so

He went down all right. I wonder what happened to him?

He must have took the short cut.

Didn’t you pass him?

I knew I ought to have went instead.