So I have quit this and I am going in
for the other.'
'What! going in for preaching?'
'Not much--railroading--money in it--and lending a hand to fellows on
the rocks.'
'I say, don't you want a centre forward?' said big Barney in his deep
voice.
'Every man must play his game in his place, old chap. I'd like to see
you tackle it, though, right well,' said Graeme earnestly. And so he
did, in the after years, and good tackling it was. But that is another
story.
'But, I say, Graeme,' persisted Beetles, 'about this business, do you
mean to say you go the whole thing--Jonah, you know, and the rest of
it?'
Graeme hesitated, then said--
'I haven't much of a creed, Beetles; don't really know how much I
believe. But,' by this time he was standing, 'I do know that good is
good, and bad is bad, and good and bad are not the same. And I know
a man's a fool to follow the one, and a wise man to follow the other,
and,' lowering his voice, 'I believe God is at the back of a man who
wants to get done with bad. I've tried all that folly,' sweeping his
hand over the glasses and bottles, 'and all that goes with it, and I've
done with it'
'I'll go you that far,' roared big Barney, following his old captain as
of yore.
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