This investigation, this checking up, involved no risk on her part as she had frankly told him.

The other would: it would mean at least partial control of property, the handling of funds.
Miss Sherwood had many sessions with him; she was interested, but she confessed herself helpless in this compilation and diagnosis of so many facts and figures.

Dick was prompt enough to report his stock transactions, and he was eager enough to discuss the probable fluctuation of this or that stock; but when asked to go over what Larry had done, he refused flatly and good-humoredly to "sit in any such slow, dead game." "If my Solomon-headed sister is satisfied with what you're doing, Captain Nemo, that's good enough for me," he would say.

"So forget that stuff till I'm out of sight.

Open up, Captain--what do you think copper is going to do ?" "I wish you could be put on an operating-table and have your speculative streak knifed out of you, Dick.