"No doubt I'd be trying to get out of it, and if I didn't, it'd be because I couldn't see or make a way." To his abnormally sensitized nerves the whole business began to exude a distinct, nauseating odor.

"Rotten--that's the God's truth," thought he.
"Father was right!" But there he drew back; he must be careful not to let anger sweep him into conceding too much.

"No--life's got to be lived as the world dictates," he hastened to add.

"I see now why father did it, but he went too far.

He forgot my rights.