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Updated: May 16, 2025
"I suppose it was because you saw the same difference in me that you welched on your agreement to put me in a partner on the increase of this flock as soon as Dad taught me how to work the sheep and handle the dogs," he said. "That's an easy way for a man to slide out from under his obligations; it would apply anywhere in life as well as in the sheep business.
Anyway, the doings of Private Ben Riggs ceased to be reported in the daily press. He dropped out of sight, like a nickel that rolls down a sewer openin'. They didn't want him any more in vaudeville. The movie producer welched on his proposition. The book sales fell off sudden. The people that wanted to name cigars or safety razors after him, or write songs about him, seemed to forget.
"What ails you?" Instantly Jim's suspicions caught fire. "Say! Has Bob welched?" he demanded, harshly. The amber head shook in negation. "Isn't he nice to you?" quavered Mrs. Knight. "Yes. But I'm sorry I did it. He was drinking; he didn't know what he was doing " "Hush!" Mrs. Knight cast a fearful glance over her shoulder.
Human beings, all human beings, he had found, moved only by indirection. He was too old a bird to have sand thrown in his eyes. "Why, you welched on Binhart yourself. You put me on his track. You sent me up to Montreal!" "They made me do that," confessed the unhappy woman. "He was n't in Montreal. He never had been there!"
"You are still enough of a man to keep your word, I believe, so long as I observe my part of our bargain?" Ed, slightly mollified, agreed. "Of course I am; I never welched. But I won't be treated as an incompetent, and I'm tired of these eternal wrangles and jangles." "You HAVE welched." "Eh?" Austin frowned belligerently.
They laugh at difficulties, grow fat on opposition, and obstacle only inspires them to renewed efforts. Yet their fight is fair, and in the true type there is a delicate sense of personal honor which only the strong possess. Philip D. Armour's word was his bond. He never welched, and even his most persistent enemies never accused him of double-dealing.
You'd be giving all your money to some rotten cop or fly cop who couldn't protect you, at that. Or you'd work the street for some cheap cadet who'd beat you up oftener than he'd beat up the men who welched on you." "I'll look out for myself," persisted she. "Bless the baby!" exclaimed he, immensely amused. "How lucky that you found me! I'm going to take care of you in spite of yourself.
That's how small you'll be, and that's how big I'm going to grow. You've 'welched' on your own word; but there's one thing you gave me that you can't take away, and that's the knowledge that I'm a newspaper man and a good one. Now just one thing more: I'm broke today, but I'm going to lick you as soon as I save up enough for the fine."
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