"Shall you be alone?"
"No; I shall have a partner. Expect him here every moment."
"If you should make a trade you will want a barkeeper, I suppose?"
"Certainly; and if Taylor speaks well of you, there's no doubt but you can stay on if you want to."
"He ought to speak well of me. He trusts me with everything. You can see for yourself, he goes off for days together, and leaves me to run the establishment alone."
"I see, and I'm sure you're jist the man we shall want."
"Thank you, sir. Will you take something more, sir?"
"Don't mind if I do."
The barkeeper went behind the bar, placed a bottle and two glasses on a salver, and returned.
"This is on me," he said, seating himself opposite Barney, who, after he had taken a drink, asked: