“Miss Forester, one final appeal to you.” This was the girl, plausible and soft.
“We will not talk of any little sum, so anxious are we to avoid unpleasantness—”
“Oh, that’s certain! It is shown by Mr. Peters’s little misadventure. After that you talk about being anxious to avoid unpleasantness.”
“We will deal with figures which count. I swear to you, Miss Forester, that what Mr. Yashvin says is true. What you have in your possession is our property; not wholly ours, but in part. And no part of it belongs to Mr. Stewart. Yet there are reasons why we should not do as you say, and carry the matter to the captain.”
“I can believe it first time of asking.”
“You can surely conceive that there may be perfectly sufficient and honest reasons why we should wish to avoid scandal. There are such
