You can't come it over us with your spellbound
audience. What you've done is you've kept the bridge ever since the
proud Professor and I started back, and, when they cut it behind you,
you swam the river."
"Have it which way you like," said I, dropping into a chair.
"Now tell me how you two have been getting along."
"Our motto," said Jimmy, "has been Plain Living and High Thinking.
We have fleeted the time in earnest discourse. It began on the way
home with the Professor asking me some innocent question concerning
what he called the 'Science' of Ju-Jitsu. I told him that it was of
Japanese origin, as its name implied, and further that he did wrong
to call it a Science; it was really an Art. I engaged that I could
prove this to him in thirty seconds, but said I would wait until we
reached home, lest he might be trying his discovery on the Police.
This led to a discussion on the Art of Self-Defence, in the course of
which he let fall the incredible remark that he had never been inside
the National Sporting Club."
"Give him time," said I. "Jack's a methodical worker, as every man
of science should be.
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