They can't have any faith in a fellow who's fooled them so often before.

And that makes him want to keep away.

Nick is fighting it out all by himself.

If we knew all the wonderful things that he's grappling with these days I imagine we'd sympathize with the poor fellow, Thad." "Hugh, you may be right.

Already I'm beginning to feel sorry for saying some of the mean things I did when first we guessed Nick was trying to turn over a new leaf.