Rest And Be Thankful
“Four. It was the fifth day, already late in the afternoon, and Earl Grubbock and Karl Koffing were still in the mountains.
Rest and be Thankful was alarmed. Only Mrs. Gunn seemed to take the delay as being something quite normal, but the more she kept calm and unruffled the more the others were convinced that something must have happened. Chuck and Jackson were just as baffling as Mrs. Gunn.
“Sure,” Chuck said to Carla, who had been worrying him with questions, “they’ve had a bit of a skirmish ...with hostiles. Or maybe they’ve gone hunting bear. Bringing home one apiece so you can take them back to New York, along with them elk-horns you’ve been collecting.”
Carla then had to spend a heated half hour trying to convince her shadow, Esther Park, that Chuck was joking, so all must be well.
Esther said, “He wasn’t. He didn’t smile one bit.” And she went back to Chuck and pestered him with predictions of possible gloom until he said, “Sure. That’s it. They got lost. Wouldn’t be surprised if they reached Yellowstone by Christmas.”MoreLess
Rest and be Thankful was alarmed. Only Mrs. Gunn seemed to take the delay as being something quite normal, but the more she kept calm and unruffled the more the others were convinced that something must have happened. Chuck and Jackson were just as baffling as Mrs. Gunn.
“Sure,” Chuck said to Carla, who had been worrying him with questions, “they’ve had a bit of a skirmish ...with hostiles. Or maybe they’ve gone hunting bear. Bringing home one apiece so you can take them back to New York, along with them elk-horns you’ve been collecting.”
Carla then had to spend a heated half hour trying to convince her shadow, Esther Park, that Chuck was joking, so all must be well.
Esther said, “He wasn’t. He didn’t smile one bit.” And she went back to Chuck and pestered him with predictions of possible gloom until he said, “Sure. That’s it. They got lost. Wouldn’t be surprised if they reached Yellowstone by Christmas.”MoreLess
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