It will last, perhaps, when what you and I do is forgotten." There was something big and moving in Tarboe.

He was a contradiction.

A lover of life, he was also reckless in how he got what he wanted.

If it could not be got by the straight means, then it must be by the crooked, and that was where he and Grier lay down together, as it were.

Yet he had some knowledge that was denied to John Grier.