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A shade of faint disgust passed over her face "I a," she said

"Well, then, I can see several ways in which the man can be of use to me … I discovered him before you did, anyway And what I want to do is to have a frank, honourable--"

"A--what?"

"--An honourable understanding with you, I said," he repeated, reddening

"Oh!" She snapped her cigarette into the grate "Oh! I see And what then?"

"What then?"

"Yes; what then?"

"Why, you and I can arrange to stand behind him this winter in town, can't we?"

"And then?"

"Then--daratitude, can't he?"

"How?" she asked listlessly

"By ely "He can't welch because there's little to clinore us I can do as s for hi a pig, Leila? Anything he does for ations to you"

"I know hi her head and pleating the lace on her knee "There is Dutch blood in hiood Hollander, but common Dutch," sneered Mortile screa her lace with steady fingers

"Well, that's all right, too," laughed Mortile It's a perfectly plain business proposition; we can do for him in a couple of winters what he can't do for hiure it out for yourself, Leila," he said, waving a mottled fat hand at her