I have been busy." "You must find time for him if you have none for anything else.

Good Lord, man! you're a fool not to have been down to the Union House and registered your name the first morning after you came here! If you run against him--well, you mustn't, that's all!" McMurdo showed mild surprise.

"I've been a member of the lodge for over two years, Scanlan, but I never heard that duties were so pressing as all that." "Maybe not in Chicago." "Well, it's the same society here." "Is it ?" Scanlan looked at him long and fixedly.

There was something sinister in his eyes.
"Isn't it ?" "You'll tell me that in a month's time.

I hear you had a talk with the patrolmen after I left the train." "How did you know that ?" "Oh, it got about--things do get about for good and for bad in this district." "Well, yes.