"What do you want me to do?
Please don't beat about the bush any longer." He hesitated a moment, and she inferred that he was trying to decide how far he might venture with safety.

"Well, I thought you might speak a word to him," he said.

"He sets such store by what you would like.

I thought you might drop a hint that he ought to stand by his friends." "To stand by his friends--that means you," she rejoined.
"Oh, he'll know quick enough what it means! You must be smart about it, of course, but I don't mind his knowing that I've been speaking to you.
It's for his own good that I'm talking--for the very minute that the fellows find out he ain't been on the square with 'em, it will be 'nothing doing' for the Governor." "It is a threat, then ?" she asked sharply.
"I'd call it something else if I were you.

Look here," he continued briskly.