But from the way you talk, I understand that ain't the trouble." He coughed, and his voice trembled a little.

"Now here, Miss Vertrees, I don't have to tell you--because you see things easy--I know I got no business comin' to you like this, but I had to make Bibbs go my way instead of his own--I had to do it for the sake o' my business and on his own account, too--and I expect you got some idea how it hurt him to give up.

Well, he's made good.

He didn't come in half-hearted or mean; he came in--all the way! But there isn't anything in it to him; you can see he's just shut his teeth on it and goin' ahead with dust in his mouth.

You see, one way of lookin' at it, he's got nothin' to work FOR.