the front Old Heck drove the car across to the station and the trunks
were fastened with ropes on the hood of the engine and running-boards of
the car.

As they started away Carolyn June asked:

"Which way now, Uncle Josiah?"

"Out to the ranch."

"Hadn't we better stop at the drug store," she asked soberly, "and get
some medicine?"

"Medicine? Who for?" Old Heck inquired innocently.

"Why, the patients, of course," Carolyn June answered with a
mischievous chuckle.

"What patients?"

"Out at the Quarter Circle KT where that epidemic of smallpox is
raging!" she answered sweetly.

"That's all a mistake," Old Heck said hastily; "we thought is was
smallpox but it wasn't--"

"No, everybody's got over it," Skinny added nervously; "they're all
cured!"

"Yes, they was just broke out with the heat and didn't have the smallpox