Thar's whisky in that jug." Mr.Hamlin did not avail himself of the information.

Brown of Calaveras turned his face to the wall and continued: "If I didn't love the woman, Jack, I wouldn't mind.

But it's loving her, and seeing her, day arter day, goin' on at this rate, and no one to put down the brake; that's what gits me! But I'm glad to see ye, Jack, damn glad." In the darkness he groped about until he had found and wrung his companion's hand again.

He would have detained it, but Jack slipped it into the buttoned breast of his coat, and asked, listlessly, "How long has this been going on ?" "Ever since she came here; ever since the day she walked into the Magnolia.

I was a fool then; Jack, I'm a fool now; but I didn't know how much I loved her till then.