Necker resolved to retrieve himself.
Manton found an opportunity to speak to him and urge him to try, as if his life depended on it.
“You were too confident,” said Manton.
“That’s right,” admitted Necker. “I thought I had it easy. I might have tried again.”
Frank congratulated Morgan.
“You came in like a dark horse, Dade,” he smiled.
“I was rooting for you inside when you came up to the mark. Necker’s chest has collapsed a great deal. He’s a great jumper, but it doesn’t do for such fellows to get too chesty. It ruins them every time.”
Morgan was delighted with himself.
“I owe it all to you, Merry,” he said. “Remember when you found me in that bum hotel on the Bowery?”
“Yes.”