She acknowledged that she liked me before she heard this accursed story, and if I had her to myself I have no doubt that I could make her like me again in spite of it." "It is a risky thing to carry a woman off in our days," Conkling said, thoughtfully, "and a deuced difficult one to do.

I don't see how you are going to set about it, or what in the world you would do with her, and where you would put her when you had got her.

I have done some pretty risky things for you in my time, Carthew, but I should not care about trying that.

We might both find ourselves in for seven years." "Well, you would have as much as that for getting at a horse, and I don't know that you wouldn't for bribing a jockey.

Still, I see that it is an uncommonly difficult thing." For five minutes nothing more was said; then Conkling suddenly broke the silence.
"By Jove, I should say that the yacht would be just the thing." "That is a good idea, Jim; a first-rate idea if it could be worked out.