So why not be sociable?'
"'Suppose on the contrary, Mr. Farrell,' I suggested, 'that I am
here to remember. What then?'
"'Then I'd say--No, you interrupted me somewhere when I was going
to make myself clear. You won't mind what I'm going to say?
. . . Well, then, I gather those asses did some pretty
considerable damage to your scientific 'plant'--is that so?
. . . Well, again, feeling a sort of responsibility in this
business, I want to say that if it'll set things on their legs
again, five or six thousand pounds won't break Peter Farrell.'
"I didn't strangle him, Roddy. It was the perilous moment: but I
sat it out like a statue, and then I knew myself a match for
this business. I didn't strangle him, even though he provoked
me by adding, 'Yes, and now we're met, out here, you can be
useful to me in a lot of little ways. Know French, don't you?
Well, I don't, and we'll throw that in. . . . What I mean is,
What d'ye say to our joining forces? I'm fed up with these
Cook's men.
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