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NORFLEET
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"Well, it would have to be that things come off on
the nick of time if I'd of got it tonight. It's more likely
I guess to expect a few delays. Maybe as how it'll
come in the morning."
The men showed their displeasure at a prolonged
wait, but tried to cover it by saying some of the usual
things about "vile mail service."
They both asked for mail for themselves but, of
course, received none.
On the ride back to the room I hailed a passing
milk wagon and bought two bottles of buttermilk.
"This will stay me," I said, "and not hurt me to
swallow it."
How I would have enjoyed sinking my teeth into
a thick, juicy steak, but I dared not have my face improve
rapidly enough to accomplish this gastronomic
feat.
I couldn't wait until I reached my mysterious hotel
to down the milk but snapped the disc from the bottle's
neck and poured down the filling fluid. The pangs of
emptiness were temporarily satisfied.
I revived enough to make a mental map of the location
of the building in which I had spent the past two
nights. While I did not find out the name of it, I could
have told rescuers how to reach me if I could get word
to them.
That night I paced the floor. Up and down, back
and forth, over and over again until I expected to trip
in the holes in the carpet worn by my ceaseless tread.
The men slept snatches of the same troubled sleep,
then went out and brought in the different editions of
the morning papers, while in between they talked with
me about raising cotton.
We bought the land, planted the seed, cultivated the
crop, picked the cotton, ginned it, baled it, sold it and
shipped it.
One thing I did during the entire time I spent in
this den was to confine my conversation entirely within
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Norfleet, J. Frank, 1864-. Norfleet: the actual experiences of a Texas rancher's 30,000-mile transcontinental chase after five confidence men., book, 1924; Ft. Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5864/m1/331/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .