"Fired?"
"They're going to take on one more man, and pay him real money."
"But you've got the Green River Jottings to do for the Wells Clarion."
"And I may get two dollars a month out of it."
"Did you see Judge Saxon again?"
"Last week."
"Why didn't you tell me what he said?"
"I told you what he would say."
"Oh, Neil!"
"The Judge hates to say no, that's why he took time to think it over. He'd be a bigger man if he didn't hate to say no. He was right to say no to me."