16/51 At last Cheyne pitched away the cigar-butt, and the two sat in the dark over the lapping water. "It's just the greatest thing that ever was!" said he. Now I'm coming to what I didn't get. It won't sound much of anything to you, but I don't wish you to be as old as I am before you find out. I can handle men, of course, and I'm no fool along my own lines, but--but I can't compete with the man who has been taught! I've picked up as I went along, and I guess it sticks out all over me." "I've never seen it," said the son, indignantly. |