I'm to go off without saying 'good-bye' to all the people who have been so kind to me.

Oh, dash it!" "The only way," said Sidcup, firmly.

"And look here," he added, after a pause.

"I know I'm doing you out of a good berth, and one that would have been better still if you could have stayed, for the old man's clean gone on you, and in time you'd have been the boss in reality, as well as in name, which you are now.

And I don't forget that you're stranded in this outlandish place.