Dear old governor, he'll do it, but he'll pull a precious long face, and go round the house lowering the gas and telling every one he must economise, with two such expensive sons as me and my minor at school.

It's not that, though.

Dangle came over this morning, and wanted to know what we were going to do about the accounts, now we've dissolved the clubs; and somehow or other he's heard of the deficiency, and wants to know all about it." "I hope you told him," said Yorke.

"Of course I did; but he told me a lot more than I could tell him.

He thinks he knows what's become of it." And Fisher proceeded to narrate Dangle's suspicions against Rollitt.
The captain's face grew very long as the story went on.