With your energy and charm, if the worst comes to the worst, you can run that schooner as you ran one of your picnics; and we may have luck.

And, O, man! if we do pull it through, what a dashing operation it will be! What an advertisement! what a thing to talk of, and remember all our lives! However," he broke off suddenly, "we must try the safe thing first.

Here's for the shyster!" There was another struggle in my mind, whether I should even now admit my knowledge of the Mission Street address.

But I had let the favourable moment slip.

I had now, which made it the more awkward, not merely the original discovery, but my late suppression to confess.