"I can always talk better when I am smoking. Have one, Travers."
"You're a man after my own heart, colonel," said Travers enthusiastically. "Now, if I only had a nip I should be in clover."
"Take one, then," said the colonel, producing a pocket-flask of brandy.
Travers was by no means bashful in accepting this invitation.
CHAPTER XX. A PROMISING PLAN.
The conference between Colonel Johnson and Travers was apparently of great interest to the latter. It is important that the reader should be made acquainted with its nature.
"I take it for granted, Mr. Travers," said the colonel, after their potation, "that you are ready to undertake a job if there is money in it."
"That's as true as you live," said Travers emphatically.