"I reckon, maybe, you never heard that lecture of his on the Past, Present, and Future' ?" "Besides that," Keating continued, "Halloway has had it long enough, and he's got enough glory out of it, and, except for getting beat by Rod McCune, I believe he'd almost as soon give it up.

Well, we discussed all this and that, and couldn't come to any conclusion.

We didn't want to keep on with a losing fight if there was any way to put up a winner, though of course we all recognized that Mr.Harkless would want us to support Kedge to the death, and that's what he'd do if he was on the ground.

But Miss Sherwood mentioned that she'd had one note since his last illness began, and he'd entrusted her and her associates on the paper with the entire policy, and she would take the responsibility for anything we determined on.

Mr.Smith said the only thing to do was to give up Halloway and get a man that could beat McCune; Kedge would recognize it himself, that that was the only thing to do, and he could retire gracefully.