He's got money scandalous." Mr.Ellsworth put the bottle down on the floor, and sat up on the chair with his hands in his pockets, wondering.

"But why ?" he demanded sternly, "why?
What are you doing out here?
Why have you thrown away your life?
Come--you're a bright young man, and you--" "Friend," said Dan Anderson, with a sudden cold quality in his voice, "I think that'll about do.

I am no brighter than I was a few years ago." "But this is no place to live." "Why isn't it?
It takes a man to live here.

Do you reckon you could qualify ?" The older man raised his head with a snort, but Dan Anderson stood looking at him calmly.

"Now let me tell you one thing," said he.