It was another two hours' leave of absence
she asked for "on urgent business." She got it, seasoned with a
sarcastic reminder that her business was supposed to be with the
railroad company, and that she would do well to cultivate
exactness of expression and a taste for her duties in the office.
She was putting on her hat even while she listened to the
message, and she astonished the man at the other end by making no
retort whatever. She almost ran to the store, and she did not
ask Pete for a saddle-horse; she just threw her office key at
him, and told him she was going to take his bay, and she was at
the stable before he closed the mouth he had opened in amazement
at her whirlwind departure.
CHAPTER XXV
"I'D JUST AS SOON HANG FOR NINE MEN AS FOR ONE"
Baumberger climbed heavily out of the rig,and went lurching
drunkenly up the path to the house where the cool shade of the
grove was like paradise set close against the boundary of the
purgatory of blazing sunshine and scorching sand.
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