for the single barrel.' (Phil was his bosom chum.)
`All right,' I said. `Make the best bargain you can.'
He got his own breakfast and made an early start next morning,
to get clear of any instructions or messages that Mary might have forgotten
to give him overnight. He took his gun with him.
I'd always thought that a man was a fool who couldn't keep a secret
from his wife -- that there was something womanish about him. I found out.
Those three days waiting for the buggy were about the longest I ever spent
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