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"What can I do, Dan? I'm broke, too. My last dollar went to pay my last debt to-day. I've nothing but what I stand in. I've got prospects, but I can't discount prospects at the banks. " The speaker laughed bitterly. "I've reaped and I'm sowing, the same as you, Dan."
The other made a nervous motion of protest. "No; not the same as me, Flood -- not the same. It's sink or swim with me, and if you can't help me -- oh, I'd take my gruel without whining, if it wasn't for Di! It's that knocks me over. It's the shame to her. Oh, what a cursed ass and fool -- and thief, I've been!"