"This is jest the life fur a lazy man like me," said Shif'less Sol.
"Nothin' to do but go on an' on, with people to wait on you, an' say you
hev already done your part."
"We have had a wonderful escape," said Paul.
The face of the shiftless one became grave, even reverent.
"So we hev, Paul," he said. "Seems to me sometimes that we wuz spared fur
a purpose. We wouldn't hev come alive, every one of us, through all that,
ef it hadn't been intended that we should go on with the work that we are
doin', helpin' and defendin' our people the best we kin. I think we've
been chose."
"I think so, too," said Paul, "and here and now we should devote ourselves
to it, as long as it is needed. I want to do so. Are the rest of you
willing?"
"I am," said Henry with emphasis.
"And I!" said the shiftless one.
"And I!" said Tom Ross.
"And I!" said Long Jim.
"Amen!" said Paul.
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