57/57 He's all right, and I hope he accepts the whole trust." "Well," exclaimed Mr.Kuhn; "you surprise me. Graves seemed to be--" "Graves suffers from the absolute lack of a sense of humor. His path through life is about three feet wide and bordered with rock-ribbed conventionality. If a man has a joke in his system, Graves doesn't understand it and is suspicious. I tell, you, Kuhn, there's more honest common sense and ability in the right hand of this Down-East salt than there ever was in Rodgers Warren's whole body.". |