It's up grade all the way, and it takes ten men's nerve to stick it out to the top.

Yep, Maggie was sure right!" And then the Duchess broke her accustomed silence with her thin croak: "Never you mind Maggie! She thinks she knows everything, but she doesn't know anything." Larry looked in surprise at his grandmother.

There was a flash in her old eyes; but the next moment the spark was gone.
"Sure you're up against it--but I'll be rooting for you." Hunt was grinning.

"But say, young fellow, what made you decide to vote the other ticket ?" Larry was trained at reading faces; and in the rough-hewn, grinning features of Hunt he read good-fellowship.

Larry swiftly responded in kind, for from the moment he had pulled the mask of being a fool from the painter and shown him to be a real artist, he had felt drawn toward this impecunious swashbuckler of the arts.