I told Robert what I meant to do . And Robert saw clear through the outward sham to the real , hideous thing underneath . He showed me what it meant and he gave me a preachment about a few Monroe Traditions of truth and honor . I saw what I had been about to do as he saw it -- as all good men and true must see it . And I vowed then and there that I 'd never go into anything that I was n't sure was fair and square and clean through and through . I 've kept that vow . I am a rich man , and not a dollar of my money is ` tainted ' money . But I did n't make it . Robert really made every cent of my money . If it had n't been for him I 'd have been a poor man to-day , or behind prison bars , as are the other men who went into that deal when I backed out . I 've got a son here . I hope he 'll be as clever as his Uncle Malcolm ; but I hope , still more earnestly , that he 'll be as good and honorable a man as his Uncle Robert . '' By this time Robert 's head was bent again , and his face buried in his hands . `` My turn next , '' said James . `` I have n't much to say -- only this . After mother died I took typhoid fever . Here I was with no one to wait on me . Robert came and nursed me . He was the most faithful , tender , gentle nurse ever a man had . The doctor said Robert saved my life .
I do n't suppose any XXXXX the rest of us here can say we have saved a life . ''
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