{"product_id":"2940014335386","title":"Travelers Five Along Life's Highway","description":"Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The First Traveler. Jimmy\u003cbr\u003e      On the Trail of the Wise Men          1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Second Traveler. Gid Wiggan\u003cbr\u003e      In the Wake of a Honeymoon           55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Third Traveler. The Clown\u003cbr\u003e      Towards His Accolade                 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Fourth Traveler. Wexley Snathers\u003cbr\u003e      By Way of an Inherited Circus       131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The Fifth Traveler. Bap. Sloan\u003cbr\u003e      To His Mount of Pisgah              159\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe First Traveler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJimmy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn The Trail of the Wise Men\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eORDINARILY a fleck of cigar ashes in the pot of mashed potatoes would\u003cbr\u003enot have caused a row in the ranch kitchen, but to-day old Jimmy had had\u003cbr\u003ea sup too much. At such times the mere sight of Matsu, the Japanese\u003cbr\u003ecook, could provoke him to oaths, and it was Matsu who had unwittingly\u003cbr\u003edropped the ashes into the pot, as he laid his cigar stump on the shelf\u003cbr\u003eabove the stove, preparatory to dishing up dinner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTime was when Jimmy had been the cook at Welsh's ranch, and had had it\u003cbr\u003eall his own way in the greasy adobe kitchen. But that was before Ben\u003cbr\u003eWelsh's last round-up. Since then his widow had been obliged to turn\u003cbr\u003epart of the cattle-ranch into a boarding camp for invalids; the part\u003cbr\u003ethat lay in a narrow strip along the desert. Health-seekers paid better\u003cbr\u003ethan cattle or alfalfa she found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany things came in with the new administration. Matsu was one of them,\u003cbr\u003ein his white chef's cap and jacket. The spotless linen was a delight to\u003cbr\u003ethe boarders, but to Jimmy, deposed to the rank of hewer of wood and\u003cbr\u003edrawer of water, it was the badge of the usurper. Naturally enough his\u003cbr\u003ejealousy took the form of making Matsu live up to his linen, and he\u003cbr\u003ewatched him like a cat for the slightest lapse from cleanliness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis constant warfare with Matsu was one of the few diversions the camp\u003cbr\u003eafforded, and every man made much of it. Had he been let alone, old\u003cbr\u003eJimmy would have accepted the situation as merely one more ill-turn of\u003cbr\u003eFate, which had left him as usual at the bottom of the wheel. But his\u003cbr\u003efutile resentment was too funny a thing for his tormentors to allow to\u003cbr\u003edie out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a remark made early that morning which set him to brooding over\u003cbr\u003ehis wrongs, and finally led to the sup too much which precipitated the\u003cbr\u003efight over the potato-pot. Batty Carson made it, in a hoarse whisper,\u003cbr\u003eall the voice left to him since the grippe sent him West in his senior\u003cbr\u003eyear. (He had been the best tenor in his college glee-club.) Jimmy was\u003cbr\u003emoving a table into the shadow of the tents, in order that the daily\u003cbr\u003egame of poker might begin. Poker was all there was in that God-forsaken\u003cbr\u003edesert to save a man's reason, Batty declared, so they played it from\u003cbr\u003ebreakfast till bed-time. As the usual group joined him around the table,\u003cbr\u003ehe opened a new deck of cards and began shuffling it. Automatically he\u003cbr\u003efound the joker and flipped it out of the pack. It fell face up on the\u003cbr\u003edry Bermuda grass and old Jimmy stooped to pick it up.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080098693360,"sku":"2940014335386","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014335386_p0.jpg?v=1763606210","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014335386","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}