"And after all, the meeting's in June, and you haven't begun to get the
quap! After all, we've still got to load our gun."
"They start on Toosday."
"Have they got the brig?"
"They've got a brig."
"Gordon-Nasmyth!" I doubted.
"Safe as a bank," he said. "More I see of that man the more I like him.
All I wish is we'd got a steamer instead of a sailing ship."
"And," I went on, "you seem to overlook what used to weigh with us a
bit. This canadium side of the business and the Capern chance has
rushed you off your legs. After all--it's stealing, and in its way an
international outrage. They've got two gunboats on the coast."
I jumped up and went and stared out at the fog.
"And, by Jove, it's about our only chance! I didn't dream."
I turned on him. "I've been up in the air," I said.
"Heaven knows where I haven't been. And here's our only chance--and you
give it to that adventurous lunatic to play in his own way--in a brig!"
"Well, you had a voice--"
"I wish I'd been in this before. We ought to have run out a steamer to
Lagos or one of those West Coast places and done it from there.
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