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It was just inevitable, like a lot of things known in that rock-ribbed and fatalistic region as immutably decreed by heaven as foreordination and the damnation of unbaptized babes. The Hayneses had just "got it hard." Yet there were times, now he was come to a gangling fourteen, when Luke's philosophy threatened to fail him. It wasn't fair so it wasn't!
McGee walked over to Yancey's plane. The gangling Texan was testing his rudder controls and flipping his ailerons with jerky movements of evident impatience. "I want you to know," McGee said to him, "that I did not ask for this flight. It is yours, by rights." Yancey's grin was genuinely friendly. "Shucks, that's nothin'. I'm glad to be out. Bein' a flight leader sorter cramped my style anyhow.
Of a sudden the gangling, spineless foreman had grown taut and forceful, his long face was hard. "Don't let a Centipede bluff you!" exclaimed Speed. "Cover anything they offer give 'em odds. Anything you don't want, I'll take, pay or play, money at the tape. We can't lose." "I got no more money," said Carara, removing his handsome bespangled hat, "but I bet my sombrero.
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