"Oh, I tell you, I'm getting right in, down at that office.

Beale wants me to take the place of one of the assistants in the firm, a fellow who's got the consumption, coughing up his lungs all the time.

It's an important place, hundred a month; that's right.

Yes, sir; you bet, I'm going to get in and rustle now and make myself so indispensable in that fellow's place that they can't get along without me.

I'll crowd him right out; I know it may be selfish, but, damn it! that's what you have to do to get along.