How much these calls of his now meant to her she did not dare consider.
"What's wrong, Lee ?" she asked at once, anxiously.

"I see something has happened." He moved round on the divan that he might fully face her.
"Everything so far as my affairs go," he replied.

"Work stops on the canal to-morrow.

That will result, of course, in the water right lapsing and in the ditch never being finished or used, except under the circumstance of my handing over my interest gratis to Gretzinger and the bondholders.

If I did that even, I don't believe Gretzinger could finish it on time, for neither Carrigan nor the men would exert themselves for him as they have for me, and they would be sure of their pay in any case.