It needed capital." He grinned slightly again, recalling a phrase of his Western past.

"I'm afraid I'm down and out." "No, you're not," with cheerful scorn.

"You're not dead, are you?
S'long as a man's not been dead a month, there's always a chance that there's luck round the corner.

How did you happen here?
Are you piking it ?" Momentarily Mount Dunstan was baffled.

G.Selden, recognising the fact, enlightened him.