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BROKEN TO THE PLOW

A Novel by

CHARLES CALDWELL DOBIE

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

Printed in the United States of America

TO MY BROTHER Who Helped Make My Literary Career Possible.

BROKEN TO THE PLOW

How did others manage? Starratt asked himself. Because there was a small minority in the office who received their full month's salary without a break during the entire year. Take young Brauer, for instance. He got a little over a hundred a month and yet he never seemed short. He dressed well, too--or neatly, to be nearer the truth; there was no great style to his make-up. Of course, Brauer was not married, but Starratt could never remember a time, even before he took the plunge into matrimony, when he was not going through the motions of smoothing old Wetherbee into a good-humored acceptance of an IOU tag. Starratt did not think himself extravagant, and it always had puzzled him to observe how free some of his salaried friends were with their coin. Only that morning his wife had reflected his own mood with exaggerated petulancy when she had said:

"I'm sure I don't know where all the money goes! We don't spend it on caf?s, and we haven't a car, and goodness knows I only buy what I have to when it comes down to clothes."

In days gone by, when his mother was alive, he had heard almost the same remark leveled at his father:

He knew from long experience just the sort his mother had meant by the term "some people." Brauer was a case in point. Mrs. Starratt always spoke of such as he with lofty tolerance.

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