The things we do!

I hustled clear into this State before I learned
that man couldn't have kept me if he'd wanted to. When I thought I
was good and away from him, I commenced hunting work, but it is with
everybody else just as it is with you, sir. Big, strong, whole men are
the only ones for being wanted."
"I have been studying over this matter," answered McLean. "I am not so
sure but that a man no older than you and similar in every way could do
this work very well, if he were not a coward, and had it in him to be
trustworthy and industrious."
Freckles came forward a step.
"If you will give me a job where I can earn me food, clothes, and a
place to sleep," he said, "if I can have a Boss to work for like other
men, and a place I feel I've a right to, I will do precisely what you
tell me or die trying."
He spoke so convincingly that McLean believed, although in his heart he
knew that to employ a stranger would be wretched business for a man with
the interests he had involved.
"Very well," the Boss found himself answering, "I will enter you on my
pay rolls.


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