'Never touch a drop,' I said. 'I learned my lesson.'
At noon I drove out in the country, about fifteen miles, until I found a woods. There was a sandy road off the main highway and I drove along the edge of the woods for about a mile. The road was empty. It didn't take long to bury the money. I had bought a metal box in Des Moines. I dug down about three feet, a hole about one foot square and dropped the box with all the money in it. I pressed the sod down carefully and sprinkled dirt around the sod edges. I looked carefully at a big. elm' about twenty feet to my right and I walked the fifty yards, pacing it off, back to the country road. Nobody in sight. The road vas vacant. Muddy cornfields stretching away to the bottom of the sky. Football was just a business. Not a game. And now I was in business. I couldn't win the game anyway. What difference did it make? Twenty-five thousand would make a lot of difference after this racket was finished with me. The thing to do was to get a bet down on the Vikings. I had about a grand in the bank. There would be a bookie in New Orleans where I could bet that grand on the Vikings. Just to be on the safe side. Lose it and look clean.
