'Where?
Show me the means.

Will you give them to me--will you ?' 'I did once,' replied Ralph, composedly; 'you scarcely need ask me whether I will again.' 'It's twenty years ago, or more,' said the man, in a suppressed voice, 'since you and I fell out.

You remember that?
I claimed a share in the profits of some business I brought to you, and, as I persisted, you arrested me for an old advance of ten pounds, odd shillings, including interest at fifty per cent, or so.' 'I remember something of it,' replied Ralph, carelessly.

'What then ?' 'That didn't part us,' said the man.

'I made submission, being on the wrong side of the bolts and bars; and as you were not the made man then that you are now, you were glad enough to take back a clerk who wasn't over nice, and who knew something of the trade you drove.' 'You begged and prayed, and I consented,' returned Ralph.