He'd no time to write home, even if he could have got money from there, and there was no one here he could borrow of.

Why, he must have gone off very first thing in the morning and bought the boat." "And are you quite certain you had all the money collected by that Saturday ?" asked Yorke.
"Yes; and what's more, I'm almost certain I counted it and made it come right.

That's the last time it has come right." The captain drummed his fingers on the table and looked very miserable.
"I wish, Fisher," said he, "I hadn't advised you to take that treasurership.

If we could only be quite sure there wasn't some mistake in the accounts, it would be different.

It would be a frightful thing to suspect Rollitt unless it was absolutely certain." "You're welcome to round on me," said Fisher, looking quite as miserable as his chief.