from page 31 of DEVIL MAKE A THIRD:

"Couldn't forget Jernigan." His mouth twisted wryly. "Or Bascom Wooten." Wooten coming that night so many months ago and tapping on the small window at the back of Green's store. His great raw slab of a face screwed up with embarrassment as he held out his heavy railroading watch, and his coarse rumble. "You kin hold this watch for the two dollars an' git three back on payday." Buck felt again the quick urge to be generous, to say, "Keep your watch and just pay me back the two," because Wooten was a friend. Then, again, came the quick knowledge and the awe that he had found the short cut; and again he knew the bite of shame as he had known it when he carried the watch slowly back towards the lamp that sat on the goods box at one end of his cot.

"OUT OF PAWN" (from the December 30, 1946 DOTHAN EAGLE)