"Well," said Harris, "I have asked Ditson to come in here this evening. I took a chance on it, for I thought we could get rid of him easily enough if we
didn't want him. He is liable to be along at any moment."
Harlow looked at a handsome watch.
"A quarter to ten," he said. "He ought to be around soon if he is coming at all."
"He will be. Where'd you get that ticker, old man?"
"Oh, I took it off a sucker in a game. I'll have to soak it if I don't strike some sort of graft pretty soon. I'm getting down to hard pan."
"I suppose you are all right, Hartwick?" questioned Harris. "You can call on your old man and make him give up any time."
"Well, I guess not! I haven't been able to get a dollar out of the old duffer since I left college. He is icy toward me, and he says I can go it for myself and be hanged."
"That's pleasant! What have you been doing to gather in the coin?"
"Why, confound it! haven't I formed a partnership with Harlow! I don't know anything about card tricks, but he works all of that, and I win the money. He gives me the hands to do it on, you see. If there