"Whatever schemes you have in the future you will have to work yourself, and whatever trouble comes of it you may also enjoy alone--because I'll throw you." "You would find difficulty in doing that," Gresham observed with a smile.

"I fancy that, if I were to send the missing books of the defunct Gamble-Collaton Irrigation Company to Mr.Gamble, you would be too busy explaining things on your account to bother with my affairs to any extent." "I was in jail once," Collaton told him with quiet intensity.

"If I ever go again the man who puts me there will have to go along, so that I will know where to find him when I get out.

Good-by." "Wait a minute," said Gresham.

"Your digestion is bad or else you made a recent winning in your favorite bucket-shop.