Then we tumbled downhill; and I've been at this for four years.

And, you know, sir, it might be worse!" Frank nodded.
Naturally he did not believe as necessarily true this terse little story, and he was absolutely certain that if cards were mixed up in it at all, obviously the Major had cheated.

So he just took the story and put it away, so to speak.

It was to form, he perceived, the understanding on which they consorted together.

Then he began to wonder about the girl.