A Romantic Courtesy

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When the plane’s port engine developed oil pressure trouble, John Raney’s pilot, SammyDowd, informed Raney that he was going to alter course and set the Twin Beech down at San Antonio and get it checked. Raney felt a mild annoyance at the delay. He was anxious to get back to his ranch north of Fort Worth early enough to take a long swim in the pool and horse around with the kids and relax from the tension of the past few days.

It had been a business trip, one of the important ones. Two days in Corpus Christi dickering with the bankers on the new oil deal had been wearing, but he had got precisely the terms he had hoped to get. On the way back, yesterday morning, he had stopped off at Lee Guthrie’s spread near Charco to select some new breeding stock for Lee to ship up.

He had changed to khakis and Lee had taken him on a jeep tour of the ranch after they’d decided about the stock. When they got back to the ranch house they found that mutual friends had flown in for an evening of poker.

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