[The Fighting Chance by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fighting Chance CHAPTER VIII CONFIDENCES 53/64
Telephone 'em; you've a telephone there, haven't you? There it is, by your elbow. Use it! Call up people.
Talk all the time." "Yes, I will." "Good! Now, Steve, we know what's the matter, physically, don't we? Of course we do! Now, then, what's the matter mentally ?" "Mentally ?" repeated Siward under his breath. "Yes, mentally.
What's the trouble? Stocks? Bonds? Lawsuits? Love ?" the slightest pause, and a narrowing of the gimlet eyes behind the lenses. "Love ?" he repeated harshly.
"Which is it, boy? They're all good to let alone." "Business," said Siward.
But, being a Siward, he was obliged to add "partly." "Business--partly," repeated the doctor.
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