I always knew some day you'd come through,

You lucky son-of-a——"

"Which,"

Asked Doug MacNeer with a smile sincere,

"Is the best joy-joint in Krull?

I've lived alone till my mind's ingrown;

This prospecting life is dull.

"I want to go play from the dusk of day

Till I waken to morning bells."

The attendant said, with a nod of the head,