Your affair is all right.

The main question for us is whether the second partner, and that's you, is the right sort to hold his own against the third and unwelcome partner, which is one or another of the high and mighty robber gangs that run the Costaguana Government.

What do you think, Mr.Gould, eh ?" He bent forward to look steadily into the unflinching eyes of Charles Gould, who, remembering the large box full of his father's letters, put the accumulated scorn and bitterness of many years into the tone of his answer-- "As far as the knowledge of these men and their methods and their politics is concerned, I can answer for myself.

I have been fed on that sort of knowledge since I was a boy.

I am not likely to fall into mistakes from excess of optimism." "Not likely, eh?
That's all right.