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`` I 've given you a send-off . You 're going to cut it out , eh ? '' Hugh tried to protest and to explain that he was not addicted to the habit of drinking , but the Ohio man would not listen . `` It 's all right , '' he said again , and then they came to the hotel where Hugh lived and he turned to go back to the station and wait for the midnight train that would carry the letter away and that would , he felt , carry also his demand that a fellow-human , who had slipped from the modern path of work and progress should be given a new chance . He felt magnanimous and wonderfully gracious . `` It 's all right , my boy , '' he said heartily . `` No use talking to me .