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One man put the matter succinctly: "Look here, Mayo, if you ca the way you do, and asked me for a quarter to buy a

meal with, I'd think it was perfectly natural, and would slip you the

quarter But not ten thousand--you don't look the part"

"What have ot to do with it? I haven't ti hat in a diving-suit I've been working

And I'ht to show you that I mean

business"

But they turned him down In half a dozen offices they listened and

shook their heads or curtly refused to look into the thing He had not

co for assistance as if it were a favor He had co to offer His

labors had racked his body, his nerves were on edge, his temper was

short When they refused to help he cursed them and tore out That they

allowed his personal appearance to influence their judgment stirred his

fury--it was so unjust to his self-sacrificing devotion to his task

He soon exhausted his circle of acquaintances, but the rebuffsrudely past pedestrians ere