CHAPTER XVThat was the frame to the picture that I knew about already, and the frame made a good deal of difference. You can tackle a doctoring case pretty cheerful, when you know that it’s just a matter of a broken leg that will knit and get well, or a fever that will burn itself out, but when you come bump up against an incurable, you feel sort of helpless. And here was I engaged in the job of putting a blanket over the head of a firm that had been rustling cows since Noah was a pup, as you might say!
“Now, look here,” says I to Randal. “While we’re talking about this side of the business, you might as well tell me if there’s any watered stock in the business, eh? Because if there is, this is the time to tell me about it before I get my heart all down in my boots, y’understand?”
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