[1] Wheat clocks: Phosphorus bombs left in wheat or haystacks and fired by the sun.
[2] Clothes: Argot terms for phosphorus, cyanide and other chemicals used in destruction of property or life.
CHAPTER XIV
THE MAN TRAIL
"What do you think of him, Wid?" asked Sim Gage after a time, when they were well on their way homeward in the late afternoon.
"Looks like a good doctor, all right," replied Wid. "Clean-cut and strictly on to his game. I reckon he got plenty practice in the war. I'm sorry neither of us was young enough to git into that war. Your leg hurt much now?"
"Say yes!" replied Sim. "You know, I reckon we didn't get there any too soon with that leg. Fine lot of us, up to my house, huh? Me laid up, and her can't see a wink on earth."
"And yet you said I couldn't come over and see her. So there you are, both alone."
"Well, it's this way, Wid, and you know it," insisted his friend. "The girl is right strange there yet—it's a plumb hard thing to figure out. We got to get her gentled down some. There's been a hell of a misunderstanding all around, Wid, we got to admit that. And we're all to blame for it."