How had he sacrificed the absent?
"Jim," I said, "you must speak right out.

I've got all that I can carry." "Well," he said--"I know it was a liberty--I made it out you were no business man, only a stone-broke painter; that half the time you didn't know anything anyway, particularly money and accounts.

I said you never could be got to understand whose was whose.

I had to say that because of some entries in the books----" "For God's sake," I cried, "put me out of this agony! What did you accuse me of ?" "Accuse you of ?" repeated Jim.

"Of what I'm telling you.