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takes herself ont O the way and lets
You and all the rest Of us alone"

/ .wait a minute before you talk that
way." Sheridan began his sentry-eo
up and down the room. ~ suppose
you know it's taken two pretty good
men about sixteen hours day TO Sc.
things straight and get 'em runnin'
| right again, down in your officer
"They must be good men, Roscoe
nodded indinerently. II thought l was
doing about eight mems work. I'm
glad YOU found two that could handle
it."
| Look here, II l worked you it was
| for your own good. There are plenty
I Of men drive harder'n / do. and
! "Yes. There are some that break
/ down all the other men that work with
{ 'em. They either die. or go crazy, or
have to quit, and are no use the rest
of their lives. The lasts my case.
gucss-'complicated by domestic diih-
I culties""
.'You set there and tell me you give
upf" Sheridan's voice shook. and so
did the gesticulating hand which he
extended appealinsly toward the de
spondent figure. Don't do it. Ros-
coe. Don't say IT, Say you'll come
down there again and be man. This
woman aln't goin' TO trouble you any
more. The work amt soin to hurt
you II you haven't got her to worry
you. and you can get shut O. this nasty
whisky guzzlin': it amt fastened on
you yet. Don't say
ITS no use on earth" Roscoe mum
bled. NO use on earth"
Look here, II you want another
months vacation"
II know Quincy told You. so what's
the use talking about 'vacationsT
"Gurney." Sheridan vociferated
the name savagely. Its Gurney. Cur
ney, Gurney. Always Gurney! !
don't know what the worlds comm to
with everybody runnin' around squeal-
in. The doctor says this. and The
doctor says that" 1t makes me sick,
How's this country expect to get its
work done If Quincy and all the other
old nannygoats keep up this blattin'!
So he says you got nervous exhaustion
induced by overwork and emotional
strain They always got 10 stick the
work in II they see n chance. reckon
you did have the emotional strain
and that's aIl's the matter with you.
You'll be over it soon's this woman's
gone. and works the very thing to
make you quit frettin' about her"
Did Gurney tell you was fit to
work."
shut up Sheridan beloved. I'm
so sick o that mans name feel like
shootln' anybody that says 1t to met
BE fumed and chafed. swearing ludis-
tlnctly. then came and stood before his
son. Look here; do you think you're
doin' the square thing by me? Do
you: How much you worth:'
I've got between seven and eight
thousand a year clear OF my own. out
side the salary. That much is mine
whether l work or not"
'It iss You could "a pulled It out
without me, 1 suppose you think. at
your age:"
"No. But it's mine, and it's enough"
MY Lord. It's about what a con-
gresham gets. and you want to quit
there! I suppose you think you'll get
the rest when 1 kick the bucket, and
all you have to do Is lay back and
wait, You let me tell you right here.
you'll never see one cent OF II You
go out O. business now. and what
would you know about handlin' it five
or ten or twenty years from now? Be
cause I intend to stay here a little
-t-hf raS TIa-1I al
1t away from you or you'd sell for a
nickel and let 1t be split up and"
He whirled about, marched TO the
other end Of the room, and stood silent
moment. Then be said. soEemnly
Listen. II you go out now. you leave
me in the lurch, with nothin' on Gods
green earth to depend on but your
brother-and you know what he ls
I've depended on you for 1t all since
Jim died. Now you've listened to that
dam doctor, and he says maybe you
won't ever be as good man as you
were, and that certainly you won't be
for year or so-probabIy more. Now.
that's all a lie. Men don't break down
that way at your age. Look at me-
And 1 tell you. you can shake this
thing off. All you need Is a little get
up and little gumpion. Men don't
go away for years and then come back
into moving businesses Ike ours-they
lose the strings. And II you could.
won't let you-if you lay down on me
now. l won't-and that's because II
you lay down you prove you amt the
man I thought you were" He cleared
his throat and finished quietly: "Ros-
coe, will you take months vacatio
and come back and go to it!'
NO" said Roscoe. listlessly. "I'm
through"
"AIl right" said Sheridan. He picked
up the evening paper from a table,
went to n chair by the fire and sat