“Of course, I mean it. You have not known me long, but you ought to have seen by now that I never play over money matters. By the way, shall you bring some one here to settle the business?”
“No, I shall take you to the city.”
“When?”
“Oh, not for a week or so. There will be papers to prepare—a sort of transfer.”
“Well, hadn’t I better do it all through old Hampton?”
“If you do, the business will never come off.”
“Because it is too risky.”
“Hampton will say it is.”
“Ah, well, we shall see about that.”
They stayed talking for long enough in the garden, and then went into the house to play billiards till dinner time, when Saul proposed leaving, but was overruled, and he stayed to keep up the principal part of the conversation, and in spite of all that his friend had said, he masked his own feelings so admirably as to throw whoever suspected him off guard.