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dispose of the old fixtures. That's a job that's just about your size.
"I tell you, Stucker, a natural-born 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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