But I'm not going to embark on that with you, old fellow--you shan't draw me in.

I know where you are on that subject." "So do I--I'm stranded.

But it's all right--the subject isn't," Lorne said quietly; and Hesketh's exclamations and inquiries brought out the morning's reverse.

The young Englishman was cordially sorry, full of concern and personal disappointment, abandoning his own absorbing affairs, and devoting his whole attention to the unfortunate exigency which Lorne dragged out of his breast, in pure manfulness, to lay before him.
However, they came to the end of it, arriving at the same time at the door which led up the stairs to the office of Fulke, Warner, and Murchison.
"Thank you," said Lorne.

'"Thank you.