And 'twas the makin' of him, too." Pearson was embarrassed and troubled.

If this big-hearted, simple-minded countryman had come to New York to buck the stock market, it was time to sound a warning.

But had he, on such short acquaintance, the right to warn?
The captain was shrewd in his own way.

Might not the warning seem presumptuous?
"So--this--this friend of yours was a successful speculator, was he ?" he asked.

"He was lucky." "Think so?
Well, maybe.