"He'll come around later and be glad of the chance." "He'll have to beg for it then! _I_ won't ask him again." "Oh, Walter will come out all right; you needn't worry.

And don't you see that Mr.Lamb's not discharging him means there's no hard feeling against you, Virgil ?" "I can't make it out at all," he said, frowning.

"The only thing I can THINK it means is that J.A.Lamb is so fair-minded--and of course he IS one of the fair-mindedest men alive I suppose that's the reason he hasn't fired Walter.

He may know," Adams concluded, morosely--"he may know that's just another thing to make me feel all the meaner: keeping my boy there on a salary after I've done him an injury." "Now, now!" she said, trying to comfort him.

"You couldn't do anybody an injury to save your life, and everybody knows it." "Well, anybody ought to know I wouldn't WANT to do an injury, but this world isn't built so't we can do just what we want." He paused, reflecting.