He meekly confessed to Bill that he had pawned off their phonograph player to buy his sweetheart Mildred he lavalliere (that he couldn""t afford), and now they had no money o pay their overdue rent ($14 dollars for two weeks) to the landlady.He takes his forceps and jerks a tooth from the mouth of a Chinaman patient.With great pain and longing on her face, Mrs.McTeague approaches and gazes thoughtfully at her son who is in the crowd - she ambitiously imagines her son bettering himself and in the same position as the dentist administering a glass of water to the Chinaman and being paid.These were the starts of five different openings (in voice-over) for Isaac""s unwritten book, as if he was reading aloud from his writings, or verbalizing his thoughts.Bracke insisted that two 10-year veterans had been put on the case of the missing Whitney - they performed three dozen interviews and did a county-wide search.He remembers how his father Clayton Smith once claimed hat Paine was "the finest man he ever knew":Just to sit here with him is a very great honor for me, because I remember Dad used to tell me that Joe Paine was the finest man he ever knew.