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The man very slowly nodded his head. "I see," he said, his voice coming
from 'way off somewhere, "I see."
"It's tough!" exclaimed Beason bitterly--"pretty tough!"
Dr. Hubers had turned his chair away from Beason, and with closed eyes
was facing the light from without. There was a long pause. Beason waited
patiently, supposing the man to be thinking what to say about so great a
difficulty.
"As I understand it," he said, turning around at last, "it's like this.
You are to give up your work at the university for a year--just one short
little year--and do something else; something not so much in your line,
perhaps, but something which will be helping those you care for--making
it easier for some one else. It's to be your privilege, as I understand
it, to fill a man's place. That's about it, isn't it?"
"But that's not the point! I thought,"--in an injured, almost tearful
voice--"that you would understand."
"Oh, I do. I see the other point. You hate to stop work for,"--he cleared
his throat--"for a year.


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