12/25 I've been there before, Breen, and know." "Does he understand about McGowan's contract ?" inquired Jack mechanically, his eyes on Ruth. Her voice still rang in his ears--its pathos and suffering stirred him to his very depths. "The Road will stand behind us--so the General Manager says--but every day's delay is ruinous to them. It will be night-and-day work for us now, and no let-up. I have notified the men." He rose from his seat and crossed to his daughter's side, and leaning over, drew her toward him: "Brace up, little girl," there was infinite tenderness in his cadences--"it's all in a lifetime. |