"It was," said Gawthrop, "and I paid a thousand dollars to have Mr. Hunt put here."
"That's what I paid to have you put here," said Hunt. "A friend of mine put me up to it."
"That was Gardiner," said Gawthrop.
"It was," said Hunt.
"And that's why we're both here," said Gawthrop, and his aspect was at once so melancholy and so comic that all hands shrieked with laughter. Old Shadwell creaked like the cheep of a block.
"But what'd this hyer Gardiner to do with the show?" asked the only American in the crew. "It looks like as if he played the pair of you for suckers."
"You hear that, Hunt?"
"I hear," said Hunt sulkily. "Wait till I see him."
"You ain't told us hall," said Shadwell, with a gloomy air of suspicion. "I knows somethin' of life, and somethin' about women; and there was a woman in this."
"Mr. Shadwell is right," said Gawthrop.