Chapter 4
HEAD SOUTH AND KEEP GOINGAt a lunch wagon down near the water front, Bud stopped and
bought two "hot dog" sandwiches and a mug of hot coffee boiled with
milk in it and sweetened with three cubes of sugar. "O-oh, boy!" he
ejaculated gleefully when he set his teeth into biscuit and hot
hamburger. Leaning back luxuriously in the big car, he ate and
drank until he could eat and drink no more. Then, with a bag of
bananas on the seat beside him, he drove on down to the mole,
searching through the drizzle for the big gum sign which Foster had
named. Just even with the coughing engine of a waiting through
train he saw it, and backed in against the curb, pointing the car's
radiator toward the mainland. He had still half an hour to wait,
and he buttoned on the curtains of the c
