"Slim Chalmers, huh? When did you see Slim Chalmers?"
"Day before yesterday."
"Here?"
"No, over at Hillsville."
"I didn't know you'd been out of town," Billy Wingo burrowed along.
"Just got back this morning."
"No trouble getting through?"
"Not a bit. This chinook has thawed the drifts."
"Did you go by stage?"
"No, I rode."