Let me slip this over
to you right at the start--I'm the right sort of man!"
"That's exactly what I want to find out," she continued, with her
deliberation, with the air of sitting secure upon the highest level.
"I know now what I can do. I've proved it. Now I'm going right ahead
putting over big things. You once told me I had it in me to be the
best ever--and I now know I can be. I know I've got to tie up with a
man, and the man has got to be just as good in his way as I am in
mine. Right there's where I'm in doubt about you. I said I was going
to talk straight--and I'm handing it to you straight. I don't know how
good you are."
"You mean you think I'm not big enough to work with you?"
"I mean exactly what I said. I said that I didn't really know how good
you are, and that I wasn't going to tie up with any man except the
best in the business. You've hinted now and then at a lot of big
things you've put across and how strong you were in certain quarters
where it paid to be strong--but I really know mighty little about you,
Barney. This present job hasn't required you to do anything special,
and all the really hard work I've done myself. Of course I know you
are a good dancer, and clever with the ladies, and know how to pick up
a sucker and string him along.
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