The other listened to the singing that came from the barn.
"Not inside, then, Albert?" he said.
"No, sir," answered the other. "I leave that to the lads."
Mr. Silver looked at his watch.
"You'd better do a bolt before Miss Boy catches you," he said.
Albert redoubled his frozen Emperor mien.
The other passed into the saddle-room; and Albert revealed the bitterness of his soul to Maudie on the ladder.
"He's all right now," he told his confidante. "Goin' to start the Bank again, and all on what I won him. And all the return he can make is to insultify me. That's the way of 'em, that is."
A door opened at the back, and a rush of sound emerged.
The lads were tumbling out of the Barn.