Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-15

blundered blindly on. 1T means lot
of extra work, but you know l like tc
work"
That's right, you do" agreed Dun
can drearily. It's queer to me. II
must be a great thing to like to work
You bet it's a great thing. Why
l couldn't exist if l couldn't work
You remember that time l laid off fol
a month in the country for my health's
sake? I'll never forget it-hanging
round all the time with my hand:
empty-every one else with something
to do. / wouldn't go through with /,
again for a fortune. Never felt so USE
less and in the way
But" interrupted Duncan, knitting
his brows as he grappled with this
problem, you were Independent
weren't you? You had money-coult
pay your board?"
"Of course Nevertheless felt ir
the way"
That's funny"
It's straight"
Il know it is. 1t wouldn't be you il
you didn't love work. 1t wouldn't bt
me if l did. Look here, Harry. Sup
pose you didn't have any money anC
couldn't pay your board and had moth
ing to do. How'd you feel in that
case?"
Il don't know. Anyhow that's rot
NO, it isn't rot. I'm trying to make
you understand how feel when
when it's that way with me, as it gen.
orally is." He raised one hand anC
let it fall with a gesture of desponden-
cy so eloquent that it reused Kellogg
out of his own preoccupation.
why, Nat" he cried, genuinely
sympathetic. I've been so taken VI
with myself that I forgot. l hadn't
looked for you till tomorrow"
You knew, them"
Il met Atwater at lunch today. He
told me- Said he was sorry, but
Yes, everybody is always sorry
but
Kellogg let his hand fall on Duncan's
shoulder. I'm sorry, too, old man
But don't lose heart. l know it's pref
ty tough on a fellow
THE toughest part of it is that yor
got the job for I..>, and had to fal
down."
Don't think of that. It's not youl
fault
You're the only man who believes
that, Harry"
Buck up. I'll stumble across some
better opening for you before long
and
stop right there. I'm through
Don't talk that way, Nat I'll get
YOU in right somewhere"
You're the best hearted man alive
Harry, but I'll see you blasted first"
Wait" Kellogg demanded his at
tention. Here's this man Burnham
You don't know him, but he's as keer
as they make 'em. He's on the track
of some wonderful scheme for making
illuminating gas from crude oil. If il
goes through, if the Inventions really
practicable. it's bound to work rev.
olution. He's down in Washington now
left this afternoon to look up the
patents. Now, he needs me to get the
ear of the Standard Oil people. anC
| I'll get YOU in there"
What right We you got to do that?'
| demanded Duncan. What the dick
ems do | know about Illuminating ga!
or crude oil? Burnham d never thanh
YOU for the likes O me-"
But, thunder, you can learn. Al
| YOU need"-
Now, see here, Harry" Duncan
gave him pause with a manner not Il
| I've denied. "Once and for all tim
understand I'm through having yc'
recommend an incompetent just be
cause we're friends"
But, Harry
Ard I'm through living on yol
while In out of a job. That's final
But. man, listen to me-when W.
were at college,
That was another matter"
How many times did YOU pay tn
room rent when | was strapped? How
many times did your money pull M
through when I'd have had to quit anC
forfeit my degree because | couldn'
earn enough to keep on?"
That's different. You earned enough
finally to square up. You don't owe
me anything"
Il owe YOU the gratitude for tn,
friendly hand that put me in the wa!
of earning-that kept me going whel
| the going was rank. Besides. the con