Probably he considered the money as practically his already; anyway he's been decent to me and I should like to do him a service.

Now say we three talk it over together and settle it out of court as it were.

I've put in my time down here and I've got to have my pay, but perhaps it would be better all around if I took it from the young man rather than his father." This struck me as the best way out of the muddle, and a very fair proposition, considering Clancy's point of view.

I myself did not for an instant credit his suspicions, but I thought the wisest thing to do was to tell Rad just how the matter stood and let him explain in regard to the letter.

I left Clancy waiting in the summer house while I went in search of Rad.