Achmed Abdullah

“ Houghton mumbled; then he continued sternly: "Graham didn't buy those shares for you? Really?"
"I swear to you he didn't," Macdonald replied.
Houghton did not speak for a while. It occurred to him that all his fear had been for nothing, and the thought made him mad. It also made him brave. So he blazed up.
"Then what the devil do you mean by coming here and talking to me about the Western Crown?" he shouted. "What the devil do you mean by introducing this—ah—painful subject? Have you no heart? Have you no sympathy? Have you no respect for old age?" ”

“ He was just a hale, clean, young American with a sense of humour and a deep capacity for sweet, unselfish love; a young American who had been a miserable failure in the past, who was making good now, and who had a splendid, solid future before him. ”

“ Make a noise like a gold-brick, and treat that there suicide compact like a scrap of paper. Show 'em that them furriners across th' Atlantic learnt you something about the usages of up-to-date diplomacy. Don't kill yerself! Live, and keep on a livin'! They will say you was afraid. And what of that? I'd rather be a live greaser any day than a dead cow-puncher. And I knows you ain't no coward. So does the count. So does Miss Emily—"
"But does she?" Macdonald interrupted softly, and left the room. ”