I guess I've said yes, in all, to about seventeen." "And you don't mean to write a thing ?" "I guess I ain't going to begin writing for the papers at my time of life." "But what will they do ?" "They won't get the pieces." "Can't they sue you, or anything ?" "Let them sue if they want to.

After what I've been through lately I guess I sha'n't mind that." "And you are telling every one of them you'll write a piece ?" "Of course I am.

It's the only thing they'll let me tell them.

I want to get rid of them somehow." Sylvia looked at Lucinda anxiously.

"Is it true that Albion Bennet has left ?" she said.
"Yes; he was afraid of getting poisoned.