And the schemers! They run like
bugs on the bottom of a board--after any piece o' money they hear is
loose. Fool schemes and crooked schemes; the fool ones are the most
and the worst! You got to FIGHT to keep your money after you've made
it. And the woods are full o' mighty industrious men that's got only
one motto: 'Get the other fellow's money before he gets yours!' And
when a man's built as I have, when he's built good and strong, and
made good things grow and prosper--THOSE are the fellows that lay for
the chance to slide in and sneak the benefit of it and put their names
to it! And what's the use of my havin' ever been born, if such a
thing as that is goin' to happen? What's the use of my havin' worked
my life and soul into my business, if it's all goin' to be dispersed
and scattered soon as I'm in the ground?"
He strode up and down the long room, gesticulating--little regarding
the troubled and drowsy figure by the fireside. His throat rumbled
thunderously; the words came with stormy bitterness. "You think this
is a time for young men to be lyin' on beds of ease? I tell you there
never was such a time before; there never was such opportunity.
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