"No. You'll always fall light. cheap rolex watches There's a buoyancy about you.... But what about coming to the end of the path and finding nowhere else to proceed?"
     "Paragon of wisdom, you have stated the situation. Now produce the answer."
     "More money?" inquired Tommy.
     "More money. More opportunity."
     "Then you've got to aim at the executive end. Begin by taking a copy-desk."
     "At forty a uggs discount week?"
     "It isn't so long ago that twenty-five looked pretty big to you, Ban."
     "A couple of centuries ago," stated Banneker positively. "Forty a week wouldn't keep me alive now."
     "You could write a lot of specials. Or do outside work."
     "Perhaps. But what would a desk lead to?
     "City editor. Night city buy cheap uggs online editor. Night editor. Managing editor at fifteen thou."
     "After ten years. If one has the patience. I haven't. Besides, what chance would _I_ have?'
     "None, with the present lot in the Inside Room. You're a heretic. You're unsound. You've got dangerous ideas--accent on the dangerous. I doubt if they'd even ugg boots for girls trust you with a blue pencil. You might inject something radical into a thirty-head."
     "Tommy," said Banneker, "I'm still new at this game. What becomes of star reporters?"
     "Drink," replied Tommy brusquely.
     "Rats!" retorted Banneker. "That's guff. There aren't three heavy drinkers in this office."
     "A lot of the best men go discount uggs for women that way," persisted Burt. "It's the late hours and the irregular life, I suppose. Some drift out into other lines. This office has trained a lot of playwrights and authors and ad-men."
     "But some must stick."
     "They play out early. The game is too hard. They get to be hacks. cheap uggs online _Or_ permanent desk-men. D'you know Philander Akely?"
     "Who is he?"
     "Ask me who he _was_ and I'll tell you. He was the brilliant youngster, the coruscating firework, the--the Banneker of ten years ago. Come into the den and meet him."