Ralph D. Paine

“ If the option expires I shall take it for granted that he doesn't want the steamer. If he pays down the cash I shall be ready to make out the papers and give Captain Handy his commission. Now you ought to tell me why you are so keen on knowing all about the business. If you refuse to explain, you are a worthless pair of blighters, and no friends of mine."
O'Shea hauled Johnny Kent to his feet, and remarked:
"We thank you kindly, George. You are a good-natured man, and we have made nuisances of ourselves. ”

“ The comrades twain were about to dodge through the traffic of Leadenhall Street and enter the office of their friend, when O'Shea plucked Johnny Kent by the sleeve and pulled him back into an adjacent doorway. A brisk, sandy-haired young man was also doubling among the stream of vehicles which roared from curb to curb, and aiming his course for the ship brokers' office. ”

“ A rather shabby lot is Handy. As I was about to tell you, O'Shea, the pair of them—Captain Handy and this spruce young man, Strothers—came in to ask our cash selling price for the Tyneshire Glen, which is laid up in the East India Docks. ”