I suppose you aren't doing anything in Kaffirs ?' Mr Racksole smiled a negative.
'I thought not,' said Levi.

Well, I never touch American rails myself, and so I reckon we sha'n't come across each other.

Good day.' 'Good day,' said Racksole politely, following Mr Sampson Levi to the door.
With his hand on the handle of the door, Mr Levi stopped, and, gazing at Theodore Racksole with a shrewd, quizzical expression, remarked: 'Strange things been going on here lately, eh ?' The two men looked very hard at each other for several seconds.
'Yes,' Racksole assented.

'Know anything about them ?' 'Well--no, not exactly,' said Mr Levi.

'But I had a fancy you and I might be useful to each other; I had a kind of fancy to that effect.' 'Come back and sit down again, Mr Levi,' Racksole said, attracted by the evident straightforwardness of the man's tone.