“I don’t believe you will again, old man. I think you have learned your lesson, and learned it well.”
Browning had slowly rolled over on his side, so he could watch the girl bathers without lifting his head to do so.
“I don’t know,” he said, slowly, in his peculiar lazy manner. “I was not introduced to Miss Random, but I have seen her in her street dress, and now I see her in bathing costume. I don’t know; I don’t know.”
“Don’t know what?” asked Rattleton.
“Don’t know but she could tempt me to do almost anything. She is out of sight!”
“There is one thing she could not induce you to do.”
“Name it.”
“Hurry.”
“Well, she could induce me to try, and that’s a great deal.”
“Begorra! it’s nayther av you chaps nade worry about her,” put in Barney. “It’s nivver a bit she’ll throuble her purty head over yez. She’s lookin’ fer bigger fish, me b’ys.”