In continuation of that document I find a condition, a clause provisional, that it shall be at the option of the aforesaid Montagu Carne, and his representatives, either to receive the interest at the rate before mentioned and thereby secured, or, if he or they should so prefer, to take for their own benefit absolutely three-fourths of the net profits, proceeds, or other increment realised by the trading ventures, or other employment from time to time, of the said London Trader.

Also there is a covenant for the insurance of the said vessel, and a power of sale, and some other provisions about access to trading books, etc., with which you have, no doubt, a good acquaintance, Mr.Cheeseman." That enterprising merchant, importer of commodities, and wholesale and retail dealer was fond of assuring his numerous friends that "nothing ever came amiss to him." But some of them now would have doubted about this if they had watched his face as carefully as Caryl Carne was watching it.

Mr.Cheeseman could look a hundred people in the face, and with great vigour too, when a small account was running.

But the sad, contemptuous, and piercing gaze--as if he were hardly worth penetrating--and the twirl of the black tuft above the lip, and the firm conviction on the broad white forehead that it was confronting a rogue too common and shallow to be worth frowning at--all these, and the facts that were under them, came amiss to the true James Cheeseman.
"I scarcely see how to take this," he said, being clever enough to suppose that a dash of candour might sweeten the embroilment.

"I will not deny that I was under obligation to your highly respected father, who was greatly beloved for his good-will to his neighbours.
'Cheeseman,' he used to say, 'I will stand by you.