Mr. Ryan laughed that short nervous laugh again.
"You ought to study law, Tode," was all he said. Then after a moment. "I advise you to attend to business, and let Habakkuk look after himself. Jim, pass that wine bottle this way."
This to another attendant who was near at hand, and Tode moved away to attend to other wants, and to turn over in his mind this new and startling thought.
CHAPTER XI.
BUSINESS AND BOTTLES.
E was still thinking when the busy work of the day was done—thinking anxiously about the same thing.