With the radio on to a mystery program, and as I looked out the window and saw a sign that said USE COOPER’S PAINT and I said, " Okay, I will. " we rolled across the hoodwink night of the Louisiana plains - Lawtell, Eunice, Kinder, and De Ouincy, western rickety towns becoming more bayou-like as e reached the Sabine. In Old Opelousas I went into a grocery store to buy bread and cheese while Dean saw to gas and oil. It was just a shack; I could hear the family eating supper in the back. I waited a minute; they went on talking. I took bread and cheese and slipped out the door. We had barely enough money to make Frisco. Meanwhile Dean took a carton of cigarettes from the gas station and we were stocked for the voyage - gas, oil, cigarettes, and food. Crooks don’t know. He pointed the car str
