After getting himself out of a disorderly conduct charge with a $50 fine and costs, Bart Lane. a big handsome guy, sunburned the color of copper, is sat in a neighborhood bar, explaining to Jeff Cobb, a journalist, the story of how he managed to get himself into trouble. A mining engineer, he had traveled to the jungle and gotten himself lost, and when he eventually returned five years later, found himself on the doorstep of his old apartment, only his wife was no longer resident...