Smith owned Adobe Flat. He leased it to Komoko. He figured he had cheated him because you gotta have water to raise anything. There never was any water on Adobe Flat. Komoko dug a well. He must have gone down sixty feet.

He got plenty of water. That made Smith pretty sore. He didn't like Japs anyway. The day after Pearl Harbor, Smith went to Sand City.

Yeah, he got turned down, trying to enlist.

Well, when he got back, he was pretty sore. Around ten o'clock, we all started drinking.

Ten in the morning.

Yeah. Smith, Coley, Sam, Hector, and me - we were all drunk. Patriotic drunk. We wanted to go out to scare the Jap a little and have a little fun. Well, when we got there, he heard us comin' and he locked the door. And then Smith started a fire. And the Jap - he came running out. His clothes were all burning. And then Smith shot him. I didn't even know he had a gun.

Then you got scared and buried him, and kept your mouths shut, hmm?

Yeah.

Well, go ahead and have your drink now. You're gonna need it.