That's Wild Pike, I suppose ?" "Yes," said Jeffreys, greatly puzzled at this unexpected meeting.
"Yes, Rimbolt's a good fellow; and doesn't mind telling bad fellows that they aren't.

You'll smile, Jeffreys; but he has actually made me uncomfortable sometimes." "Really ?" said Jeffreys, thinking it must have been some very remarkable effort which succeeded in accomplishing, that wonder.
"Yes.

I told him once casually about an unpleasant ward I once had, whom I rather disliked.

I thought he would sympathise with me when I related how delicately I had got rid of him and sent him adrift when it did not suit me to keep him any longer.

Would you believe it, Rimbolt wasn't at all sympathetic, but asked what had become of my ward's money! Do take warning, Jeffreys, and avoid the bad habit of asking inconvenient questions.