"Oh, dry up that sort of talk! Nobody'd listen to your resigning. Everybody wants you here, and we couldn't spare you from the polo team."
"But if I can't pay up, what else can I do?"
"But you can't resign in debt, man."
Jack laughed with savage amusement.
"What the devil am I to do? I can't stay, and I can't leave. That seems to be about the size of it."
Dr. Wilson looked at his companion keenly, and there was in his tone some hesitation as he replied.
"You might sell—"
"Sell my ponies!" broke in Neligage excitedly. "When I do I'll give up playing."
"Oh, nonsense! Don't be so infernally stubborn. Harbinger'll buy one, and I'll buy a couple, and the others it doesn't matter about. You've always had twice as many as you need."
"So you propose that I shouldn't have any."