Although he searched the crowd with eager eyes, he did not see her
again, and was confident that she had disappeared as soon as she had
accomplished her mission, which was to convey some message to him.
Although he was somewhat curious to know what, if anything, was written
on the paper, he restrained himself until he could be alone, for he did
not know who might be in that crowd looking for just such a move on his
part.
Just then Bud brushed his way through the crowd and came up to Ted.
"Them things ain't come yit," he said, in a tone of discontent, "an' me
stranded in St. Looey with no more clean shirt than a rabbit."
"You can easily get a clean shirt," said Ted, "but it's not so easy to
get a new commission. That's what's worrying me, for there is no
telling how soon we may need one."
"Well, let's git out o' this mob, er I'll begin ter beller an' mill, an'
if they don't git out o' my way I'll cause sech a stampede thet it'll
take ther police all day ter round 'em up ag'in."
Ted said nothing to Bud about the paper he had discovered in his pocket,
but picked up his valise.
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