Then, too, I think he understands the tricks of the market better over here, and he has a very dangerous confederate in Skinflint Martin.

What that old blackguard doesn't know of chicanery and crooked dealing, the devil himself couldn't make use of.

If he's put his own money into B.& I., I should say that Phipps can't be broken.

My advice to Wingate, at any rate, when we meet, will be to stand by for a time." The sound of approaching voices warned them that their seclusion was on the point of being broken into.

Their hostess, an elderly lady of great social gifts and immense volubility, appeared, having for her escort a tall, well-groomed man of youthful middle-age, with the square jaw and humorous gleam in his grey eyes of the best trans-Atlantic type.