After all, it was the best thing for me that all that row about my bills came out when it did.

You did me a better turn than you meant to do.

Just like you--if you try to do things the right way, it's all up with everybody.

But if you do them your own way, they manage to come round somehow." "But Crofter's done you out of the captaincy." "So much the better--I didn't deserve it.

I'll get it back some day perhaps, and work it better.