14/28 You didn't hear because I wasn't telling anybody about it when it happened, and it never came out." "Mind telling me about it, Joe ?" He pulled at his perfecto while assembling his facts; and then he made one of the longest speeches Joe Ellison--"Silent Joe" some of his friends had called him in the old days--was ever known to utter. But there was reason for its length; it was an epitome of the most important period of his life. No one knew me for what I was; they took me for what I pretended to be, a small capitalist whose interests required his taking occasional trips. |