rn retrencher has his virtues. But
if you give him rope enough he will retrench you out of business. He
never builds anything. If it wasn't for the creative man there would
be nothing to retrench.

"The retrencher is all right if you don't pay him too much. He is
worth about $10 a month, because you can find fifty of them in any old
man's home that you can hire for less money than that.

"No, Lem, I won't be unfair. You're not as bad as all that. It takes
all kinds of people to make a world and there is plenty of room for
both of us in this business--there always will be leaks to stop and
work to do for an earnest man who has the interest of the store at
heart.

"The fault has been in the division of our labor. I'll show you the
way we can get the best out of ourselves."

"Sam," said Lem, "I reckon I've been looking at the world through a
crack in the fence and I'll have to widen out my view a little. You
give me the books and the sales slips to look after. In the meantime
I'm going to make the most exact inventory this store ever had and be
ready to check in the fresh stock that is to go in these New Way
wardrobes.

"My talents are all right if I don't try to cover too much territory."

The two men shook hands.

All was in readiness on the day set. Everybody in Medeena County came
to the Grand Opening, and Sam Lambert's New Way Store is doing the
business of the town.

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