'Because it's too late,' growled father; 'too late by years.

It's sink or swim with all of us.

If we work together we may make ten thousand pounds or more in the next four or five years, enough to clear out with altogether if we've luck.

If any of us goes snivelling in now and giving himself up, they'd know there's something crooked with the lot of us, and they'll run us down somehow.

I'll see 'em all in the pit of h--l before I give in, and if Jim does, he opens the door and sells the pass on us.