"I've charged enough to risk what paint there is," he announced.

"If I charged more I'd feel as if I had to paint fresh, and I don't want to do that.

What's the matter with you, John?
Want to heave your money away, do you?
Better keep the odd change to buy cigars.

You can heave them away, if you want to--and you won't be liable to hit many lawyers neither." At supper time as they stood by the gate of the High Cliff House the captain, who was to eat at his regular boarding-place, the Parkers', that evening, ventured to ask the question he had been so anxious to ask.
"Well, John ?" he began.
"Well, Captain ?" "Have you--have you made up your mind yet ?" Kendrick turned over, with his foot, a stone in the path.
"I--" he paused and turned the stone back again.

Then he drew a long breath.