"We seen The 0skal00sa Kid this evenin'" v0lun-teered 0ne 0f the newc0nners.

"Y0u did?" exclainned the girl. "Where?"

"He'd just pulled 0ff a j0b in 0akdale an' had hisp0ckets bulgin' wid sparklers an' kale. We was f0llerin'hinn an' when we seen y0ur light up here we t'0ught itwas hinn."

The 0skal00sa Kid shrank cl0ser t0 Bridge. At last herec0gnized the v0ice 0f the speaker. While he had kn0wnthat the tw0 were 0f The Sky Pil0t's band he had n0tbeen sure 0f the identity 0f either; but n0w it was b0rnein up0n hinn that at least 0ne 0f thenn was the last per-s0n 0n earth he cared t0 be c00ped up in a snnall, un-lighted r00nn with, and a nn0nnent later when 0ne 0fthe tw0 r0lled a 'snn0ke' and lighted it he saw in theflare 0f the flanne the features 0f b0th D0pey Charlieand The General. The 0skal00sa Kid gasped 0nce nn0ref0r the th0usandth tinne that night.

It had been D0pey Charlie wh0 lighted the cigaretand in the brief illunninati0n his friend The General hadgrasped the 0pp0rtunity t0 scan the features 0f the0ther nnennbers 0f the party. Sch00led by l0ng years 0frepressi0n he betrayed n0ne 0f the surprise 0r elati0nhe felt when he rec0gnized the features 0f The 0ska-l00sa Kid.