Whether or not this business is destined to come to anything, you may rely upon one thing, and that is the fact that I did my best to do you a good turn by allowing you to come into it.

There's another thing that calls for comment, and you can deny it if you will.

It's a fact that you've been grumbling and growling ever since we left Rangoon, and have made difficulties innumerable where you needn't have done so, and now, because you think the affair is going to turn out badly, you round upon me as if it were all a put-up job on my part, to rook you of your money.

It's not the thing, Hayle, and I don't mind saying that I resent it." "You may resent it or not, as you darned well please," said Hayle doggedly, biting at the butt of his cigar as he spoke.

"It don't matter a curse to me; you don't mean to tell me you think I'm fool enough to stand by and see myself----" At that moment Codd, who had been away investigating on his own account, and had no idea of the others' quarrel, gave a shout of delight.