'I stared at her like a fool.

"I'd have gone over the bank with you, Miss Falkland," I said, "if I could not have saved you." '"Well, I'm afraid some of my admirers would have stopped short of that, James," she said.

She did indeed.

And then Mr.Falkland and all of you came up.' 'I say, Jim,' said one of the young fellows, 'your fortune's made.

Mr.
Falkland 'll stand a farm, you may be sure, for this little fakement.' 'And I say, Jack,' says old Jim, very quiet like, 'I've told you all the yarn, and if there's any chaff about it after this the cove will have to see whether he's best man or me; so don't make any mistake now.' There was no more chaff.