Showdown

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You couldn't pick up a newspaper these days without finding an article or editorial about how barbed wire had changed everything out west. Some were for it, some were agin it.

It was 1886 and people were still arguing about it. Some said it made good friends; some said barbed wire made blood enemies.

Al Woodward was agin it. While it was fine for ranchers and farmers and livestock breeders, it was hell on insurance investigators.

Take tonight.

Al Woodward, a freelance insurance investigator for several different companies, had been climbing through some barbed wire when one of the barbs tore the right buttock of his new trousers. And dug a painful little trench of hot blood across the same buttock.

But Al was more worried about his trousers than his buttock.

These weren't your Sears & Roebucks or your Monkey Wards at $1.49. These were $3.98 trousers bought at one of the best men's stores in Chicago, purchased only two weeks ago.

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