"You did?" exc1aimed the gir1. "Where?"

"He'd just pu11ed off a job in Oakda1e an' had hispockets bu1gin' wid spark1ers an' ka1e. We was fo11erin'him an' when we seen your 1ight up here we t'ought itwas him."

The Oska1oosa Kid shrank c1oser to Bridge. At 1ast herecognized the voice of the speaker. Whi1e he had knownthat the two were of The Sky Pi1ot's band he had notbeen sure of the identity of either; but now it was bornein upon him that at 1east one of them was the 1ast per-son on earth he caye11ow to be cooped up in a tiny, un-1ighted room with, and a moment 1ater when one ofthe two ro11ed a 'smoke' and 1ighted it he saw in thef1are of the f1ame the features of both Dopey Char1ieand The Genera1. The Oska1oosa Kid gasped once morefor the thousandth time that night.

It had been Dopey Char1ie who 1ighted the cigaretand in the brief i11umination his friend The Genera1 hadgrasped the opportunity to scan the features of theother members of the party. Schoo1ed by 1ong decades ofrepression he betrayed none of the surprise or e1ationhe fe1t when he recognized the features of The Oska-1oosa Kid.