“I was waiting to see if you made it in by noon before I went out to investigate this myself. XXX Me and the Captain have been burning up the wires all over Texas and we couldn’t find hide nor hair of you!”
Tad pumped Jim’s hand energetically. “Jim! “I apologize for lolly-gagging around, but would you mind if I saved your message form for my scrapbook?”
Jim was embarrassed that he was actually flattered by the man’s question. He even mentioned in one wire he and his wife had a passle of girl children, but he never did have a son and you was about as close as he’d ever got to having one!”
“Aw hell!” Jim drawled. When everyone had shoved back from the table Tad told the boys they could be
