I know that."
"Bad breaks cost money," Orde reminded him.
"So does any education. Even at its worst this can't cost much money. He
can't wreck things--the organization is too good--he'll just make 'em
wobble a little. And this is a mighty small and incidental proposition,
while this California lay-out is a big project. No, by my figuring Bob
won't actually do much, but he'll lie awake nights to do a hell of a lot
of deciding, and----."
"Oh, I know," broke in Orde with a laugh; "you haven't changed an inch
in twenty years--and 'it's not doing but deciding that makes a man,'" he
quoted.
"Well, isn't it?" demanded Welton insistently.
"Of course," agreed Orde with another laugh. "I was just tickled to see
you hadn't changed a hair. Now if you'd only moralize on square pegs in
round holes, I'd hear again the birds singing in the elms by the dear
old churchyard."
Welton grinned, a trifle shamefacedly. Nevertheless he went on with the
development of his philosophy.
"Well," he asserted stoutly, "that's just what Bob was when I got there.
He can't handle figures any better than I can, and Collins had been
putting him through a course of sprouts.
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