"I found out a good deal about glue then, too." "Been workin' on it since, I suppose ?" "Yes.

Kept it in my mind and studied out new things about it." Lohr looked serious.

"Well, but see here," he said.

"I hope it ain't anything the ole man'll think might infringe on whatever he had you doin' for HIM.

You know how he is: broad-minded, liberal, free-handed man as walks this earth, and if he thought he owed you a cent he'd sell his right hand for a pork-chop to pay it, if that was the only way; but if he got the idea anybody was tryin' to get the better of him, he'd sell BOTH his hands, if he had to, to keep 'em from doin' it.