“Oh, yes, you will, John.”
“No, sir, I'm mad. I won't play.”
“You're it. I just tagged you.”
“I require a rest—but unfold your proposition, Neddy. I was born a poor, weak vessel consumed with a curiosity that was ever my undoing. I can only protest that this is no way to treat a friend.”
“Nonsense! My own brother wants this job, and I have refused to give it to him. Business is business—and I've saved it for you.”
Jerome leaned forward and laid his finger confidentially on Webster's knee; whereat the lighthearted wanderer carefully lifted the finger, brushed an imaginary speck of dirt from it, and set it down again. “Be serious, you ingrate,” Jerome protested. ''Listen! I've been working for two years on a consolidation up near Telluride, and I've just put it across. Jack, it's the biggest thing in the country——
Webster closed his eyes and crooned:
“I'm dying for some one to love me;
I'm tired of living alone;
I want to be somebody's darling,