Right Guard Grant

Right Guard Grant

Although the store had reopened for business only that morning several customers had already been in and out, and when the doorway was again darkened momentarily Russell Emerson looked up from his task of marking football trousers with merely perfunctory interest. Then, however, since the advancing figure, silhouetted flatly against the hot September sunlight of the wide-open door, looked familiar, he eased his long legs over the edge of the counter and strode to meet it. Is it? mimicked the other. Dont you know it is? Then he laughed. Guess I was a fool to get out of that bath tub, but I wanted to have a chat with you, and Im due at Doctor McPhersons this evening. He stopped fanning his reddened face and tossed his hat atop a pile of brown canvas trousers beside him. Johnny Cade was short of stature, large-faced and broad in a compact way. In age he was still under thirty. He had a pleasantly mild voice that was at startling variance with his square, fighting chin, his sharp eyes and the mop of very black and bristle-like hair that always reminded Russell of a shoe brush. The mild voice continued after a moment, while the sharp eyes roamed up and down the premises. Got things fixed up here pretty nicely, he observed commendingly. Looks as businesslike as any sporting goods store I know. Branched out, too, havent you? He nodded across to where three bicycles, brave in blue-and-tan and red-and-white enamel, leaned. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 53116
Author: Barbour, Ralph Henry
Release Date: Sep 22, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Crump, Leslie, 1894-1962