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Later that evening, I found my redskin pilot, Mr. Coming Going, near the swimming pool. He wore a
swim suit and two feathers, was having trouble with one of the feathers drooping over an eye, and was
sitting with his legs cocked up on a table, watching female guests disporting in the pool.

тАЬUgh!тАЭ he said to me.

From that beginning, I worked the conversation around to Doc Savage, and asked for information about
the star guest. I had touched a sympathetic chord, because Mr. Going's eye brightened. He said тАЬUgh!тАЭ a
couple of times enthusiastically, changed to perfectly good Kansan City English, and told me that Doc
Savage was a noted celebrity, a righter of wrongs and punisher of evildoers.

тАЬI got that same line from my girl-friend-employer,тАЭ I said. тАЬBut it sounds a little screwball.тАЭ

тАЬThat Savage fellow is no screwball,тАЭ said Coming Going. The glint in his eye was probably
admirationтАФnot for me, but for Savage. тАЬWhat gave you such an idea?тАЭ

тАЬThat evildoer nemesis and wrong-righter stuff,тАЭ I said.

тАЬIt's straight.тАЭ

тАЬGadzooks. It sounds like strictly from the place where the bells hang.тАЭ

тАЬWell, that's what he does.тАЭ
тАЬYou mean that's his profession?тАЭ

тАЬYep.тАЭ

тАЬHow does he make it pay off?тАЭ

Coming Going shrugged. тАЬI'm not his historian. Strikes me you should have heard of Savage. How did
you miss it?тАЭ He gazed at me with more approval than he had evidenced hitherto. тАЬYou seem to be a
pleasantly ignorant wench. The type I admire, incidentally.тАЭ

I noticed that Mr. Coming Going had blue eyes. тАЬJust how much Indian are you?тАЭ I asked.

He pretended to be alarmed lest we he overheard. тАЬMy pop once bummed a cigarette off Chief Rose
Garden, but don't tell anybody on me.тАЭ

тАЬWhat tribe did Chief Rose Garden belong to?тАЭ

тАЬKickapoo, I guess. He was selling bottled Kickapoo Snake Oil off the tailgate of a wagon that stopped
in our village for a while.тАЭ

I left Mr. Coming Going without being certain whether I was being kidded.

That night, Glacia asked me to share her room. Somehow I did not seem at all surprised when she did
so, which must mean that I had sensed something of the sort coming. Glacia was off-handedly high and
mighty about it. тАЬYou'd better move in with me, and cut expenses,тАЭ she said. And added, тАЬI've already
had your things brought to my suite.тАЭ