“I think it is; unless some other fellow has been boarded who felt about as cheap as I do about it, and has resolved to keep it to himself until somebody else speaks. That is why I had made up my mind to let out the whole thing at the club meeting to-night.”
“But, even in that case, the information would have been likely to leak out, don’t you suppose?”
“I certainly do.”
“I imagine there is a beginning to the career of a pirate, the same as there would be the beginning of a career in other professions, don’t you?”
“Naturally.”
“And has it occurred to you that the fellow was sort of getting his hand in on you?”
“Eh? What is that?”
“That he was practising on you?”
“Maybe he was. You can search me.”