I don't like to lose you, but if you have an opportunity to get in on another paper during this vacation of yours, you're at liberty to do so, for all of me." "Then you think my chance of coming back here would be pretty slim if I leave for a month now ?" "That's right." There was a silence.

Condy hesitated; then he rose.
"I'll take the chance," he announced.
To Blix, that evening, as he told her of the affair, he said: "It's neck or nothing now, Blix.".