him to germany and give that crack a flutter that s all if it were only possible she said half and wholly without anger only it isn t and you know it isn t i can t accept money from you � hold on now he interrupted wouldn t you accept a drink of water from one of the twelve if you was dying of thirst or would you be afraid of his evil daylight tions � she made a gesture of � or of what folks might say about it but that s different she began now look here miss youve got to get some foolish notions out of your head this money notion is one of the things i ve seen suppose you was falling over a cliff wouldn t it be all right for me to reach out and catch you by the arm sure it would but suppose you needed another sort of help � instead of the strength of my arm the strength of my pocket that would be all wrong that s what they all say but why do they say it because the robber want all the to be honest and respect money if the weren t honest and didn t respect money where would the robbers be don t you see the robbers don t deal in arm holds they deal in dollars therefore arm holds are just common and ordinary while dollars are sacred � so sacred that you let me lend you a hand with a few or here s another way he continued on by her mute protest it s all right for me to give the strength of my arm when you re falling over a cliff but if i take that same strength of arm and use it at pick and work for a day and earn two dollars you won t have anything to do with the two dollars yet it s the same old strength of arm in a new form that s all besides in this proposition it won t be a claim on you it ain t even a loan to you it s an arm hold i m giving your brother � just the same sort of arm hold as if he was falling over a and a nice one you are to come running out and yell stop at me and let your brother go on over the cliff what he needs to save his legs is that crack in germany and that s the arm hold i m offering wish you could see my rooms walls all decorated with � scores of them � of them they re no use to me and they cost like sam scratch but burning daylight there s a lot of making them and i go on buying why ive spent more money in a single night on than would get the best and pay all the expenses of a dozen cases like your brother s and remember you ve got nothing to do with this if your brother wants to look on it as a loan all right it s up to him and you ve got to stand out of the way while i pull him back from that cliff still refused and daylight s argument took a more painful turn i can only guess that you re standing in your brother s way on account of some mistaken idea in your head that this is my idea of well it ain t you might as well think i m all those i buy from i haven t asked you to marry me and if i do i won t come trying to buy you into and there won t be anything when i come a asking s face was flushed and angry if you knew how ridiculous you are you d stop she out you can make me more uncomfortable than any man i ever knew every little while you give me to that you haven t asked me to marry you yet i m not waiting to be asked and i warned you from the first that you had no chance and yet you hold it over my head that some time some day you re going to ask me to marry you go ahead and ask me now and get your answer and get it over and done with he looked at her in honest and pondering admiration i want you so bad miss that i don t to ask you now he said with such and earnestness as to make her throw her head back in a frank boyish laugh besides as i told you i m green at it i never went a before and i don t want to make any mistakes but you re making them all the time she cried no man ever a woman by holding a threatened proposal over her head like a club daylight i won t do it any more he said humbly and anyway we re oflf the my straight talk a minute ago still holds you re standing in your brother s way no matter what notions you ve got in your head you ve got to get out of the way and give him a chance will you let me go and see him and talk it over with him i ll make it a hard and fast business proposition i ll stake him to get well that s all and charge him interest she visibly hesitated and just remember one thing miss it s his leg not yours still she refrained from giving her answer and daylight went on his position and remember i go over to see him alone he s a man and i can deal with him better without i ll go over to morrow afternoon chapter daylight had been wholly truthful when he told that he had no real friends on with thousands 