Lucky for you and your friend it did.

And I'm not sorry, either, for I'd no fancy for putting any of you to trouble; but I was bound to protect myself, you see." "Of course, of course.

You're a regular trump, Webster," cried Dick, too delighted to feel at all critical of the way in which the bookseller was extricating himself from his dilemma.

"I'm so glad; so will they be.

Thanks, awfully, Webster.