He learned from a side wind that the house of Hunky and Sons was concerned largely in this business,--or at any rate he thought that he had so learned.

The ease with which Lopez had destroyed that bill six weeks before it was due had had great effect upon him.

Those arguments about a large fortune or a small income still clung to him.

Lopez had come to him about the business in the first instance, but it was now necessary that he should go to Lopez.

He was, however, very cautious.