"Holy smoke," Parker murmured desperately, "two of them on the twenty-firstand that's to-morrow!" CHAPTER II A BLUFF CALLED The Quarter Circle KT was a womanless ranch.

The whole room had the womanless look of a bachelor's quarters, and was flavored with tobacco and just a hint of whisky.

There are all sorts of bachelorhoods, and there is a wide distinction between the womanless splendour of Händel's life at court, and the unilluminated garret of Schubert's obscurity.

when I die, I want to go to a womanless world.

There they were, thinly tented in the rain, and the dew, and the mist, a busy, boisterous, womanless camp of diggers and grubbers, roughing-and- tumbling it in the scramble for gold mites, with no quiet Sabbath breaks, nor Sabbath songs, nor Sabbath bells to measure off and sweeten a season of rest.