Then he said, solemnly: "Listen.

If you go out now, you leave me in the lurch, with nothin' on God's green earth to depend on but your brother--and you know what he is.

I've depended on you for it ALL since Jim died.

Now you've listened to that dam' doctor, and he says maybe you won't ever be as good a man as you were, and that certainly you won't be for a year or so--probably more.

Now, that's all a lie.