16/17 I don't know any fellow that I can get along better with than Scarborough. I think you were a little hard upon him about his father, you know." "In his position he ought to hold his tongue." "It's the strangest thing that has turned up in the whole course of my experience. You see, if he didn't talk about it people wouldn't quite understand what it was that his father has done. It's only matter of report now, and the creditors, no doubt, do believe that when old Scarborough goes off the hooks they will be able to walk in and take possession. He has got to make the world think that he is the heir, and that will go a long way. |