“You make too much of such things.”
“Do I?”
“Yes, you do. Nobody thinks of them except you.”
“They don’t have to.”
“You’re all right now, anyway, Dan.”
Dan smiled and did not reply, though the words of his friend were far more comforting than Ned could understand.
“There’s one way out of it,” continued Ned.
“What is that?”
“You give Gus all that is coming to him. You can do it! You——”
“What do you mean?”