His car had slipped over into Kansas, by this time, and the crew
were now working their way over the prairies.

"It seems to me that it is time you were attending to your press
work, Teddy Tucker," said Phil on the following day. "You have
not called at a newspaper office since we started under the
new arrangement."

"Nope," admitted Teddy.

"Why not?"

"Why, do you think?"

"I am sure I do not know."

"Well, you ought to, seeing you have been keeping me running my
legs off twenty-four and a half hours out of every day."

"You have been pretty busy, that is a fact. But you had better
start in today. You have plenty of time this afternoon to attend
to that work."

"What shall I tell them?"

"Oh, tell them a funny story. Make them laugh, and they will do
the rest."

"But I don't know any funny stories."