He didn't WANT any rest, he told Alice impatiently, when she suggested that the idle day might be good for him.
Late that afternoon he walked over to the apartment house where old Charley Lohr lived, and gave his friend the letter he wanted the head of Lamb and Company to receive "personally." "I'll take it as a mighty great favour in you to hand it to him personally, Charley," he said, in parting.

"And you won't forget, in case he says anything about it--and remember if you ever do get a chance to put in a good word for me later, you know----" Old Charley promised to remember, and, when Mrs.Lohr came out of the "kitchenette," after the door closed, he said thoughtfully, "Just skin and bones." "You mean Mr.Adams is ?" Mrs.Lohr inquired.
"Who'd you think I meant ?" he returned.

"One o' these partridges in the wall-paper ?" "Did he look so badly ?" "Looked kind of distracted to me," her husband replied.

"These little thin fellers can stand a heap sometimes, though.

He'll be over here again Monday." "Did he say he would ?" "No," said Lohr.