"Unsalable stock, or a mortgage on property that carries another charge!
Have you any idea of getting the money back?"
"What has that to do with you?"
Carroll spread out his hands.
"Only this: It strikes me that you need looking after. We can't stay here indefinitely. Hadn't you better get back to Vancouver before your English friends ruin you?"
"I'll go in three or four weeks; not before."
Carroll sat silent a minute or two, and then looked his companion squarely in the face.
"Is it your intention to marry Evelyn Chisholm?"
"I don't know what has put that into your mind."
"I should be a good deal astonished if it hadn't suggested itself to her family," Carroll retorted.
Vane looked thoughtful.