"Did you buy a ticket?"
"No, sar, I reinvested all my monies travelling on those railroad trains."
"Now see how foolish you are. If you'd stayed at home you might have bought the winning number to-day."
"I prefer to h'accompany you. But—I have been thinking to make you a proposition of partnership. Master h'Auntony. I will stay home and dream numbers which you can purchase with your salary. In that manner we shall certainly burst this lottery."
"Oh, I see! You'll sleep while I rustle the coin to play. What's your idea of a fair division of the profits?"
"It is sometimes exceedingly fatiguing to dream," said Allan, defensively. "Sometimes one wastes an entire day and has no success."
"That's merely a question of diet. I could make you dream your head off."
"But I do not desire the profits, however, for being partners with you. I would like you to have plenty of monies, that is all. I love you, sar."
"Don't! You embarrass me."
"It is true, chief, I would die and—"