What was more important to him, this had all been done without exciting hard feelings.
"Stirling's a reasonable fellow," Gallagher told Costell, not knowing how much Peter was seeing of the big leader, "and he isn't dead set on carrying his own schemes.

We've never had so little talk of mutiny and sulking as we have had this paring.

Moriarty and Blunkers swear by him.
It's queer.

They've always been on opposite sides till now." When the weather became pleasant, Peter took up his "angle"' visitings again, though not with quite the former regularity.

Yet he rarely let a week pass without having spent a couple of evenings there.