“I am afraid it is.”
“And, if they find him—what then? Why don’t you speak?” he added impatiently.
“I don’t know what. Some people say it will only be a bad case of bankruptcy.”
“Any way, it is a complete smash.”
“Yes, it’s that.”
“Will it, do you think, be ruin, Johnny? Ruin utter and unmitigated?”
“It is that already—to many persons round about.”
“But I mean to my own people,” said he, impatiently.
“Well, I should fear it would be.”
Gusty took off his hat to wipe his brow. He looked white in the starlight.