“Country? The country they ride over’s nothing to what the Irish do. A feller told me——”
“Hello, boys, what’s up? Why the theatre supper?” demanded Hard, entering.
He listened to the particulars which poured upon him. “Well,” he said, finally, “I’m sorry I missed the excitement. ’Twas ever thus. The only time our house ever burned down I was at a matinée of the ‘Black Crook.’ Well, you saved the cash?”
“Miss Polly did,” grinned Scott. “And we’ve got the boy that made the mischief.”
“Jimmy much hurt?”
“Afraid so.”
“I was afraid something like this would happen,” said Hard. “They told me over in Conejo that there was trouble on. They had an all-night session at Hermosillo and the state seceded.”
“That’s what Pachuca says.”
“Morgan’s taken his family up to Douglas.”
“Any news from Bob?”