That's settled," he replied.
Thus, almost at a word, my point was carried.

But the trouble was that such differences continued to recur, until we began to regard each other with alarm.

If there were one thing Pinkerton valued himself upon, it was his honesty; if there were one thing he clung to, it was my good opinion; and when both were involved, as was the case in these commercial cruces, the man was on the rack.

My own position, if you consider how much I owed him, how hateful is the trade of fault-finder, and that yet I lived and fattened on these questionable operations, was perhaps equally distressing.

If I had been more sterling or more combative things might have gone extremely far.