CHAPTER I His vmsT thought, upon regaining consciousness, was that he had failed. And because he was only sixteen, and because this was his first job, he tasted the bitterness of defeat. Then his second thought was about Cal Rutherford . Cal Rutherford would not be as angry as he would be disgusted. Cal was not the type who was quick to become angry. Cal had sent him out to the storage-bin after a load of wheat and he had let the four-horse team run away. And some- ~h,j ~aa~ ~,~ ~ra, ~. Dimly, memory returned. He had been ready to go down the grade, and he was stopping at the summit, for he had aimed to rough-lock his wagon wheels, since the grade down was steep. His two teams, strung out, had been lathered, for the up-
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