"It's a bargain, then ?" "It's a bargain--confound it!" agreed Mr.Washer quite affably, now that the struggle was over.

"Where do we go ?" "To Mallard Tyne, the six original owners and myself will all take a piece of your two and three-quarter millions." "I ought to take a body-guard," grinned Washer; "but I'll chance it.
Come on." While the foregoing was in progress Constance Joy was entertaining Paul Gresham, who had the effrontery to drop in for lunch.

Of course the conversation turned to Johnny Gamble.

Neither of them could avoid it.
They had reached the point where Gresham was angry and Constance was enjoying herself.
"I have great faith in him," she was saying.

"He has a wonderful project under way just now." "And he doesn't care who suffers by it," charged Gresham, furious that she should be so well-informed.