"Does he know you would like to be his partner?" she asked next.
"N—no," he faltered, "not exactly."
She sat a moment looking at the fire.
"I do not believe he would do it," she said at last. "He is too proud of having done everything single-handed."
Then she looked at her father again.
"If he would," she said, "and there were no rash ventures made, it would be a good thing."
CHAPTER XVI. "A POOR CHAP AS IS ALLUS I' TROUBLE."
"It was nothing but a chance, after all," Murdoch said to Miss Ffrench, just as he had said to Haworth. "It happened that I was the first to see the danger."