"If you're on a prospecting trip, keep your secret close.

There's another bit of advice I might give." He turned to Blake.

"If you're a friend of Benson's, take him along with you." "I suppose I am, in a way, though it's a long time since I met him.
But why do you suggest our taking him ?" "I hate to see a man go to pieces as Benson's doing.

Clarke's ruining the fellow.

He must have got two or three thousand dollars out of him, one way or another, and isn't satisfied with that.