author - "Earl Wayland Bowman"
g,oilcloth covered table. The food, wholesome, plain and abundant, wasalready served.
Silently each heaped his plate with the viands before him while SingPete circled the table pouring coffee into the white porcelain cups. TheQuarter Circle KT was famous for the excellence of its grub and theChink was an expert cook.
"Lordy, oh, lordy," Old Heck groaned, "it don't seem possible them womenare coming!"
"Maybe they won't," Parker sympathized. "When they get that telegramthey ought to turn around and go back--"
"Chuck's coming!" Bert Lilly exclaimed at that moment and the sound of ahorse stopping suddenly at the front of the house reached the ears ofthe group at the table.
"Go ask him if he got an answer, somebody, quick!" Old Heck cried.
As Charley Saunders sprang to his feet Chuck yelled, "They got it andsent an answer! I got one--" and rushed excitedly through the house andinto the kitchen waving an envelope, twin to the one Skinny had broughtearlier in the day. "They're on Train
g,oilcloth covered table. The food, wholesome, plain and abundant, wasalready served.
Silently each heaped his plate with the viands before him while SingPete circled the table pouring coffee into the white porcelain cups. TheQuarter Circle KT was famous for the excellence of its grub and theChink was an expert cook.
"Lordy, oh, lordy," Old Heck groaned, "it don't seem possible them womenare coming!"
"Maybe they won't," Parker sympathized. "When they get that telegramthey ought to turn around and go back--"
"Chuck's coming!" Bert Lilly exclaimed at that moment and the sound of ahorse stopping suddenly at the front of the house reached the ears ofthe group at the table.
"Go ask him if he got an answer, somebody, quick!" Old Heck cried.
As Charley Saunders sprang to his feet Chuck yelled, "They got it andsent an answer! I got one--" and rushed excitedly through the house andinto the kitchen waving an envelope, twin to the one Skinny had broughtearlier in the day. "They're on Train