"Are you warranted in thinking there will be another time?"
"I guess so. I don't know that I deserve it, but you won't be too hard on me?"
Eleanor saw the gleam in his eyes. "It will depend. Where is Jimmy?"
"Bidding against Forster and the rest for the Tyee."
"Ah!" said. Eleanor, and for a moment her face softened. "I don't know why you didn't tell me that earlier. Hadn't you better go back and see that he doesn't get her?"
"I don't care if he does," said Jordan; "that is, as long as he gives me half an hour of your company."
Eleanor laughed. "Leaving out the compliment, what would you do if Jimmy bought her for you?"
"Run her against the first vessel Merril put on a trip she was good for, if I had to carry freight for nothing."
The girl turned and glanced at him again, and a hard glint crept into her eyes. She looked imperious, forceful, and vindictive then, but the man felt a thrill run through him, for he knew his answer had pleased her.
"Ah!" she said; "for that I could forgive you many a failure. Still, you must go back and look after Jimmy. We shall not go away until we hear what you have done."