Owing to your kindness, I have fallen on clover--pardon! I mean that I've got an excellent situation.

And, speaking of that, I'm very glad to see you.

I'm afraid you'll think I'm a nuisance, and that, like a new broom, I want to sweep everything clean; but I'm obliged to tell you that the machinery you've got out there is played out, and that it is absolutely necessary to have a new plant.

It will cost you a great deal of money, and I don't know where it is to come from--straight from England, I suppose." She made a movement of her hand, indicating what seemed to Derrick sublime indifference.
"It shall be as you say," she said.

"You have been working very hard, is it not?
Oh, I have seen you coming from the shed; you looked tired and so----Is it necessary, senor, to get so dirty ?" "'Fraid it is," said Derrick, with a laugh; "the worst of it is, the machinery is even dirtier than I am.