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But the discovery, if any there were, was made to wait upon a word of friendly solicitude. "What's this they were telling me down at the lunch-counter just now about somebody taking a pot-shot at you last night?" he asked. "Dougherty said it was Bart Rufford; was it?" Lidgerwood confirmed the gossip with a nod. "Yes, it was Rufford, so Dawson says. I didn't recognize him, though; it was too dark."
I took his manner to be the Western abruptness that I had heard of, and presently forgot him in the scenery along the line. At Albuquerque I got off for a trip to a lunch-counter, and happened to take a seat next to him. "Know anybody in Holston?" he asked. As I could not speak because of a mouthful of sandwich I shook my head.
"Oh, yes, you did," objected Kate, coupling nervous haste with the declaration as she tried to take the cold cup from between his hands. The ease with which she assumed the role of a lunch-counter waitress astonished her. "What did I do?" he drawled, resisting her attempt to make amends. "You said I couldn't go out that door," she answered, refusing to be denied the cup.
At one side of the room was a lunch-counter, from which the odor of newly-made coffee was wafted to him in the most tantalizing manner. What wouldn't he give for a cup at that moment? But there was no use in thinking of such things; and so he resolutely turned his back upon the steaming urn, and the tempting pile of eatables by which it was surrounded.
Summing up the astounding thing afterward, those who could recall the details and piece them together traced Judson thus: It was ten-forty when he came down from McCloskey's office, and for perhaps twenty minutes he had been seen lounging at the lunch-counter in the station end of the Crow's Nest.
"Do," answered Dick, with difficulty. "He's ambling up to the lunch-counter now." Mr. Chester went out by way of the window, swallowing hard. "I have just been told," said Miss St. Clair to the poet, "that the er poem was not written by you, and I apologise for what I said." Mr. Perkins bowed in acknowledgment. "It is a small matter," he said, wearily, running his fingers through his hair.
"She'll eat before she starts back home," he thought, hastening his stride on to Hodges's place, the Ace of Diamonds. "I'll see her at the lunch-counter." Tucked in beside the Ace of Diamonds was a bootblack stand, a crazy, home-made affair with dusty seat. The wielder of the brush and polish was nowhere in evidence.
Well, McMann sat at my side, and little by little, with the sea washing sad-like near by, I got from him the story of his exile, and why. "I don't need to tell you it was woman had sent him off for the equator. This one's name was Marie, I think, and she worked at a lunch-counter in Kansas City.
The Snowbird was reluctant in yielding; he eyed 'Poleon darkly, and there was both resentment and suspicion in his somber glance when he finally turned away. Not until Rouletta and her companion were perched upon their high stools at the oilclothcovered lunch-counter did the latter speak; then he inquired, with a frown: "Tell me, is any dese feller mak' love on you, ma soeur?" "Why, no!
They had not gone often to New York since their wedding journey, but they had gone often enough to have noted the change from the lunch-counter to the lunch-basket brought in the train, from which you could subsist with more ease and dignity, but seemed destined to a superabundance of pickles, whatever you ordered.
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