"Little Mac may be a great organizer, as they say, but you can keep on organizin' an' organizin', until it's too late to do what you want to do." "It's a sound principle that you lay down, Mr.Whitley," said Warner in his precise tones.

"In fact, it may be reduced to a mathematical formula.

Delay is always a minus quantity which may be represented by y.

Achievement is represented by x, and, consequently, when you have achievement hampered by delay you have x minus y, which is an extremely doubtful quantity, often amounting to failure." "I travel another road in my reckonin's," said Whitley, "I don't know anything about x and y, but I guess you an' me, George, come to the same place.

It's been a full six weeks since Bull Run, an' we haven't done a thing." Whitley, despite their difference in rank, could not yet keep from addressing the boys by their first names.