Digital heart book

"Why, man, that fifty
thousand dollars, before we get clear again, will cost
us nearer seventy. Yes, it figures up overhead to more
than ten per cent. a month; and I could do no better,
and there isn't the man breathing could have done as
well. It was a miracle, Loudon. I couldn't but admire
myself. O, if we had just the four months! And you
know, Loudon, it may still be done. With your energy
and charm, if the worst comes to the worst, you can run
that schooner as you ran one of your picnics; and we
may have luck. And O man! if we do pull it through,
what a dashing operation it will be! What an
advertisement! what a thing to talk of and remember all
our lives! However," he broke off suddenly, "we must
try the safe thing first. Here's for the shyster!"
There was another struggle in my mind, whether I should
even now admit my knowledge of the Mission Street
address. But I had let the favourable moment slip. I
had now, which made it the more awkward, not merely the
original discovery, but my late suppression to confess.


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