[The Fighting Chance by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fighting Chance CHAPTER XIII THE SELLING PRICE 25/56
Yes, I want to.
You know what a pillow is to a tired man's shoulders.
I want to use your sane intelligence to rest on a moment. It's my brain that's tired, Plank." Although everybody had cynically used Plank, nobody had ever before found him a necessity. "Go on," he said unsteadily.
"If I can be of use to you, Siward, in God's name let me be, for I have never been necessary to anybody in all my life." Siward rested his head on one clinched hand: "How much chance do you think I have ?" he asked wearily. "Chance to get well ?" "Yes." Plank considered for a moment, then: "You are not trying, Siward." "I have been trying since--since March." "Since March ?" "Yes." Plank looked at him curiously: "What happened in March ?" "Had I better tell you ?" "You know better than I." Siward, cheek crushed against his fist, his elbow on the desk, gazed at him steadily: "In March," he said, "Miss Landis spoke to me.
I've made a better fight since." Plank's serious face darkened.
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