You throw me off." "Give me a cigar, then.Thanks.I await your pleasure." "Zurich warned me that Stanley's partner, this old man Johnson, had gone East and would in all probability come here to bring proposals from Stan.
He came yesterday, bearing a letter of introduction from Stan.

The fear that I would not close with his proposition had the poor old gentleman on needles and pins.

But I fell in with his offer.

I won his confidence and within the hour he had turned himself wrong side out.

He made me a map, which shows me how to find the mine.