"You've made me a quarter of a million that I don't want.

The C.H.

& D.stocks were going to pieces when I bought them, and I had reason to hope I'd lose a good round sum on them.
But the confounded luck turned, and the result is an accumulation of all this dreadful money.

So, my dear Major, before I'm tempted to do some-other foolish thing I've determined to run away, where business can't follow me, and where by industry and perseverance I can scatter some of my ill-gotten gains." The Major smiled grimly.
"That's Europe, right enough," he said.

"And I don't object, John, to your going there whenever you please.