"Roast pork and apple sauce," chuckled Bud, and he was right.
"Here, Fah," said Dick, handing the cook the bottle of Elixer. "Toshsent this to you."
The celestial gave one look at the flask, raised his hands to cover hismouth and ran from the room, squeaking in his falsetto voice:
"No can do! No can do!"
"He'll never open another bottle here as long as he lives!" chuckled
Bud.
And then, as the sun began to sink behind the western hills and fromthe various stations on the ranch the cowboys filed in to supper, theboys gathered at the table for the bountiful meal and were very happy.They had solved the poison mystery and made Death Valley a place oflife.
THE END