Aylward and Champers-Haswell, who are used to that kind of thing and will probably dissolve partnership and lie quiet for a bit, and still less to folk like myself, who are only servants.

But if you were still here it would have mattered a great deal to you, for it would blacken your name and break your heart, and then what's the good of the money?
I tell you, Major," the clerk went on with quiet intensity, "though I am nobody and nothing, if I could afford it I would follow your example.

But I can't, for I have a sick wife and a family of delicate children who have to live half the year on the south coast, to say nothing of my old mother, and--I was fool enough to be taken in and back Sir Robert's last little venture, which cost me all I had saved.

So you see I must make a bit before the machine is scrapped, Major.

But I tell you this, that if I can get L5000 together, as I hope to do out of Saharas before I am a month older, for they had to give me a look-in, as I knew too much, I am off to the country, where I was born, to take a farm there.