I must repeat again that I was a fool--that I needed only to speak one word, had I but known it.
"If I had gone straight to work, everything might have come around all right even then.

But I didn't.

I had that what's-the-use feeling.

And I stopped in at the Palmer House bar to get something to sort of pull me together.
"While I was there, who should come up to the bar and order a drink but Prent McMakin." "Yes!" says Colonel Tom, as near excited as he ever got.
"Yes," says Armstrong, "nobody else.

We saw each other in the mirror behind the bar.