"
"So does a horse before it gets ready to buck."
"Exactly. If I thought it would be easy I wouldn't be tempted."
"Well, if you like fighting you've sure mapped out a nice sizeable
quarrel with me, Bud."
"Good. I'm certainly coming back to Eldara. Now about this method of
mine--"
"Throwing your cards on the table, eh? What you got, Bard, a royal
flush?"
"Right again. It's a very simple method but you couldn't beat it."
"Bud, you ain't half old enough to kid me."
"What you need," he persisted calmly, "is someone who would sit down
and simply talk good, plain English to you."
"Let 'er go."
"In the first place I will call attention to your method of dressing."
"Anything wrong with it?"
"I knew you'd be interested."
She slipped into a chair and sat cross-legged in it, her elbows on her
knees and her chin cupped in both her hands.
"Sure I'm interested. If there's a new way fixin' ham-and, serve it
out."
"I would begin," he went on judiciously, "by saying that you dressed in
five minutes in the dark."
"It's generally dark at 5 a.
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