Chapter 4Daniel picked me up that evening, and we stopped in Flynn’s Corners to collect one of the crew. Kid was Indian too, frying-size, and older than me, probably twenty-one or two. He mighta been built small, but he was muscular. I was to find out all of the crew was built good because of the work they done. From the talk, Kid was planning on moving in with Daniel after his other partner quit, but now I’d be bunking with Daniel instead.
Kid was friendly and had a good sense of humor. I was in the middle of Daniel’s truck, and his leg was riding against mine on one side and Kid’s on the other. I was glad when the thirty-mile trip north to the mountain country was over.
It’s a good thing I had three hundred dollars because I had to buy boot-packs, rubber boots with steel toes and steel
