Two on the Trail

The interior of Papps's, like most Western restaurants, was divided into a double row of little cabins with a pas-sage between, each cabin having a swing door. Garth Pe-vensey found the place very full; and he was ushered into a cubby-hole which already contained two diners, a man and a woman nearing the end of their meal. They appea-red to be incoming settlers of the better class-a farmer and his wife from across the line. Far from resenting Garth's intrusion, they visibly welcomed it; after all, there was something uncomfortably suggestive of a cell in tho-se narrow cabins to which the light of day never penetra-ted.