Lucky I was put there, too.

Otherwise I wouldn't have seen Mrs.Graham one morning--through the window.

What a little our fortunes hang to at times, eh?
If it hadn't been for the girl and the knife and the hospital, I wouldn't be here now, and Graham wouldn't be bleeding his heart out with impatience--and you, Holt, wouldn't be facing the biggest opportunity that will ever come into your life." "I'm afraid I don't understand," said Alan, hiding his face in the smoke of his cigar and speaking with an apparent indifference which had its effect upon Rossland.

"Your presence inclines me to believe that luck has rather turned against me.

Where can my advantage be ?" A grim seriousness settled in Rossland's eyes, and his voice became cool and hard.