"Well, well, well!" he cried, and patted Adams's shoulder with a strong pink hand.

"Listen to this young feller, Miss Alice, will you! He thinks we can't get along without him a minute! Yes, sir, this daddy of yours believes the whole works 'll just take and run down if he isn't there to keep 'em wound up.
I always suspected he thought a good deal of himself, and now I know he does!" Adams looked troubled.

"Well, I don't like to feel that my salary's going on with me not earning it." "Listen to him, Miss Alice! Wouldn't you think, now, he'd let me be the one to worry about that?
Why, on my word, if your daddy had his way, _I_ wouldn't be anywhere.

He'd take all my worrying and everything else off my shoulders and shove me right out of Lamb and Company! He would!" "It seems to me I've been soldiering on you a pretty long while, Mr.
Lamb," the convalescent said, querulously.

"I don't feel right about it; but I'll be back in ten days.