“Honorable,” says I, “you’re wrong; you only get paid once.”
“Talking to yourself?” asks Dirty.
“Nope. But the feller I’m talking to can’t hear me.”
* * * * *
Then we crawls over to the hay-hole and peers down. In the center of the
room is a table and a box, and around the table sets old Sam Holt, Wick
Smith, Ricky Henderson and “Jay Bird” Whittaker. Two Wets and two Dries.
Each one of them election officials has a gun in front of him. Scattered
around the room is representatives from abroad. Hassayampa Harris, “Sad”
Samuels, “Weeping” Wilson, “Ace” Allison and “Half-Pint” Perkins from
Curlew, and Cobalt Williams, Mike Pelly, Bill McFee, Andy Johnson, Art
Miller, “Slim” Hawkins, Zeb Abernathy, Hank Padden and Abe Mudgett, all
from Paradise.