"I'm tired of hearing the word.

Sometimes it makes me sick to think of it." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself!" reproached Loring with a laugh.
"All right," agreed Johnny accommodatingly.

"I'm used to that anyhow.
For one thing, I'm ashamed of being such a sucker.

That old partner of mine not only stung me for every cent I could scrape together for two years, but actually had the nerve to try to sell the big tract of land we irrigated with money." "To sell it!" exclaimed Loring in surprise.
"That's all," returned Johnny.

"He went to the Western Developing Company with it two months ago and had them so worked up that they looked into the title.