But once safely
hidden from view, they dropped into a walk, and selecting a
favorable resting-place, paused. Speed lighted a cigarette, Glass
produced a deck of cards from his pocket, and they played seven-
up. Having covered five miles in this exhausting fashion, they
returned to the ranch in time for luncheon. Both ate heartily,
for the exercise had agreed with them.
CHAPTER VIII
Lawrence Glass was beginning to like New Mexico. Not only did it
afford a tinge of romance, discernable in the deep, haunting eyes
of Mariedetta, the maid, but it offered an opportunity for
financial advancement--as, for instance, the purchase of Willie's
watch. This timepiece cost the trainer twenty-one dollars, and he
sold it to Speed for double the amount, believing in the luck of
even numbers. Nor did young Speed allow his trainer's efforts to
cease here, for in every portable timepiece on the ranch he
recognized a menace, and not until Lawrence had cornered the
market and the whole collection was safely locked in his trunk
did he breathe easily.
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