bearings of Pemberton's allusion: "I shall get on with them better when
you're not here."

"Ah don't say that--it sounds as if I set you against them!"

"You do--the sight of you. It's all right; you know what I mean. I
shall be beautiful. I'll take their affairs in hand; I'll marry my
sisters."

"You'll marry yourself!" joked Pemberton; as high, rather tense
pleasantry would evidently be the right, or the safest, tone for their
separation.

It was, however, not purely in this strain that Morgan suddenly asked:
"But I say--how will you get to your jolly job? You'll have to telegraph
to the opulent youth for money to come on."

Pemberton bethought himself. "They won't like that, will they?"

"Oh look out for them!"

Then Pemberton brought out his remedy. "I'll go to the American Consul;
I'll borrow some money of him--just for the few days, on the strength of
the telegram."

Morgan was hilarious. "Show him the telegram--then collar the money and
stay!"

Pemberton entered into the joke sufficiently to reply that for Morgan he
was really capable of that; but the boy, growing more serious, and to