“Then I should think we ought to have a boat.”
“I got one,” said Yank.
“Good for you!” cried Talbot. “You’re a man after my own heart! Well, Johnny?”
Johnny told his tale, a little proudly and produced his required two hundred and twenty dollars.
“You had luck,” said Talbot non-committally, “and you ran a strong risk of coming back here without a cent, didn’t you? I want to ask you one question, Johnny. If you had 118 lost, would you have been willing to have taken the consequences?”
“What do you mean?” asked Johnny blankly.
“Would you have been willing to have dropped out of this partnership?”
Johnny stared.
“I mean,” said Talbot kindly, “that you had no right to try to get this money by merely a gambler’s chance unless you were willing to accept the logical result if you failed. It isn’t fair to the rest of us.”
“I see what you mean,” said Johnny slowly. “No; I hadn’t thought of it that way.”