convey the impression that he was entirely at fault. It was a direct reaction from the feelings he had had when he left her that eventful Saturday night which, though it was only two days away, seemed now to have existed some time in the dark ages. So much had happened in the meantime.
Sanford Drake listened. In the end he said, "It seems to me, Dudley, that you're assuming rather too much of the responsibility for a bad situation, though, heaven knows, you're not blameless, Neither is Carmelita—and neither am I, for that matter. I have encouraged you to forget everything for business, for this Chartres contract. I thought I was doing it for your own sake. I wanted to give you a chance to prove to yourself and me that you are worthy of big things in a business way. I have kept you on practically starvation wages because I thought it was good discipline. But I guess I was wrong. It was good discipline, but, like lots of good discipline, it has caused a rebellion in another quarter.
"There never has been a substantial and lasting success won in the business world except by hard work.
"I know lots of young men read that kind of thing in these stories on 'How I Make My Millions' in the magazines and say, 'Bunk!
