【新編大學英語】（第二冊）Unit 3 B 亡羊補牢（2/4）

He became a railroad locomotive fireman with Southern Railroad. He liked that, Figured maybe he had found himself. At eighteen he got married, and within mouths, wouldn't you know she announced she was pregnant the day he announced he'd been fired again? Then, one day, while he was out job hunting, his young wife gave away all their possessions and went home to her parents. Then came the depression. Harlan couldn't win for losing, as they said. He really tried. Once, while working at a succession of railroad jobs, he tried studying law by correspondence. But he dropped out that, too. He tried selling insurance, selling tires. He tried running a ferryboat, running a filling station, No use. Face it - Harlan was a loser. And now here he was hiding in the weeds outside Roanoke, Virginia, planning a kidnapping. As I say, he'd watched the little girl's habits, and knew about her afternoon playtime.