[The Woman-Haters by Joseph C. Lincoln]@TWC D-Link bookThe Woman-Haters CHAPTER VI 45/53
Why didn't you want to do it yourself ?" Seth crossed his legs and was silent for a moment or two.
Then he spoke firmly and as if his mind was made up. "Young feller," he said, "I don't know whether you realize it or not, and perhaps I shouldn't be the one to mention it--but you're under some obligations to me." His companion nodded.
"I realize that," he said. "Yes, but maybe you don't realize the amount of the obligations.
I'm riskin' my job keepin' you here.
If it wa'n't for the superintendent bein' such a friend of mine, there'd have been a reg'lar assistant keeper app'inted long ago.
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