take every bit of energy in your body, and all the energy I got left in mine, and every cent of the little I've saved, besides something I'll have to raise on this house. I'm going right at it, now I've got to; and you'll have to quit Lamb's by the end of next week."
"Oh, I will?" Walter's voice grew louder, and there was a shrillness in it. "I got to quit Lamb's the end of next week, have I?" He stepped forward, angrily. "Listen!" he said. "I'm not walkin' out o' Lamb's, see? I'm not quittin' down there: I stay with 'em, see?"
Adams looked up at him, astonished. "You'll leave there next Saturday," he said. "I've got to have you."
"You don't anything o' the kind," Walter told him, sharply. "Do you expect to pay me anything?"
"I'd pay you about what you been getting down there."
"Then pay somebody else; I don't know anything about glue. You get somebody else."
"No. You've got to———"
Walter cut him off with the utmost vehemence. "Don't tell me what I got to do! I know what I
