"In fact, I've reasons for believing it wouldn't be wise to go any farther in the matter." The other looked at him in astonishment.
"Well," he said, "I heard that you were not so enthusiastic as you were not long ago, which is why I came down; but I never expected this! Anyway, after what we have done, you are bound to go on with the thing.
Our success with the first company will help the shares off." "That's not certain." Herbert handed him a paper.

"You haven't seen Singleton's report." The man read it hastily, his face changing.

Then he looked up with signs of strong indignation.
"You let him give you a thing like this?
Paid him for it ?" "What could I do?
The man's honest.

He declares the country's dangerous; he had two carriers killed.

There's no prospect of our obtaining the needful native labor." "Send somebody else out at once!" "With the same result.