"Ah!"
"Hum! Listen! This is what we had better do," said Jacob. "Sell Ballacraine and take her the money, and tell her we never meant to keep it from her."
"That's good," said John.
"A Governor-General has pickings, I can tell you," said Jacob.
"But who'll go?" said Asher.
"Go! Hum! What! The deuce! Well I mightn't refuse to go myself," said Jacob.
"And maybe I wouldn't mind going with you," said John.
And so it was settled. But the other four said to themselves: "What about the pickings?" And then each, of himself, concluded secretly that if Jacob and John went to Iceland, Jacob and John would get all that was to be got by going, and that to prevent such cheating it would be necessary to go with them.