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 "'No!'

"'Finerty!'

"'Aye!'

"'Fitzmeyer!'

"'Aye!'

"'Flanigan!'

"'Aye!'

"'Hear them?' I said. 'It's nearly up to you—what do you say?'

"The old man's lips quivered, and his calloused fingers grated in his beard. He opened his lips to speak, but his jaw moved helplessly. And we heard Hen's voice back there in the house calling—calling so that you could have heard him over in the Leland bar-room:

"'Geisbach!'

"'No!'

"'He is one of those who will change,' I said.

"'Giger!'

"There was no response. 'He'll be all right when they call the absentees,' I said.

"'Gordon!'

"'No!'

"'Griesheimer!'