George Cannon had an overwhelming answer to all timorous objections.

The boarding-house was remunerative; boarders were at that very moment in it.

The nominal proprietor was not leaving it because he was losing money on the boarding-house, but because he had lost money in another enterprise quite foreign to it, and had pledged all the contents of the boarding-house as security.

The occasion was one in a thousand, one in a million.

He, George Cannon, through a client, had the entire marvellous affair between his finger and thumb, and most obviously Sarah Gailey was the woman of all women for the vacant post at his disposition.