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     "A day?" he echoed.
     "Yes. I'm going to-morrow."
     "That's as may be. Ten to one there's no space to be had."
     "Surely you can get something for me. A section will do if you can't get a stateroom."
     He smiled. ugg boots sale "The president of the road might get a stateroom. I doubt if anybody else could even land an upper. Of course I'll do my best. But it's a question when there'll be another train through."
     "What ails your road?" she demanded indignantly. "Is it just stuck together with glue?"
     "You've never seen this desert country when it springs a leak. It can develop ugg boots sale a few hundred Niagaras at the shortest notice of any place I know."
     "But it isn't leaking now," she objected.
     He turned his face to the softly diffused sunlight. "To be continued. The storm isn't over yet, according to the way I feel about it. Weather reports say so, too."
     "Then take me for a walk!" she cried. "I'm tired of rain and I ugg boots sale want to go over and lean against that lovely white mountain."
     "Well, it's only sixty miles away," he answered. "Perhaps you'd better take some grub along or you might get hungry."
     "Aren't you coming with me?"
     "This is my busy morning. If it were afternoon, now--"
     "Very well. Since you are so urgent, I _will_ stay to luncheon. I'll even get it up myself if ugg boots sale you'll let me into the shack."
     "That's a go!" said Banneker heartily. "What about your horse?"
     "I walked over."
     "No; did you?" He turned thoughtful, and his next observation had a slightly troubled ring. "Have you got a gun?"
     "A gun? Oh, you mean a pistol. No; I haven't. Why should I?"