Anyhow, people
gathered from long distances and cheered the woman. I got
desperate toward the last, and I unraveled the right hip of my
bathing suit grabbing for my gun. I couldn't see the bath-house
for the sand in my eyes, so I must have led 'em up across the
boulevard and into the tent colony, for after a while we were
rolling around among tent-pegs and tangling up in guy-ropes, and
all the time our audience was growing. Dave, those tent-ropes
sounded like guitar strings."
Blaze paused to wipe the sweat from his brow, whereupon his
listener inquired in a choking voice:
"How did you come out?"
"I reckon I'd have got shed of 'em somehow, for I was resting up
on top of my man, but that stinging lizard of a woman got her
claws into the neck of my bathing-suit and r'ared back on it.
Dave, she skinned me out of that garment the way you'd skin out an
eel, and--there I was! You never heard such a yelling as went up.
And I didn't hear all of it, either, for I just laid back my ears
and went through those sight-seers like a jack-rabbit. I never
knew a man could run like I did. I could hear people holler, 'Here
he comes,' 'There he goes,' 'Yonder he went,' but I was never
headed.
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