"Are you going to see her through this snag ?" "Of course I am." "Ah, that's the talk.

But wait a second.

We got to be tricky about this." She was excited and tremendously in earnest.

"If she gets to know I've been holding out the hat to you, we're wasting time.

Give me the money, see?
I'll make up a peach of a story about how it came to me,--the will of a rich uncle in Wisconsin or something, you know,--and ask her to come and help me blow it in somewhere on the coast, see?
She gave me three weeks' holiday once.