Part 35 (1/1)

”What decision? Oh, to stay in England? No. I don't think he ever has.

He's done pretty well for himself in spite of any little trouble there's been. I should say he's no worse off than he was.”

”I wasn't thinking of the matter from a business point of view,” I said.

”From every other point of view,” said Gorman, ”he was wrong. A man ought not to go back on his country under any circ.u.mstances whatever.”

”I don't agree with you,” I said.

”His conscience,” said Gorman, ”if financiers have consciences which I doubt----”

”Some day,” I said, ”when I'm a bit stronger, we'll argue the whole thing out.”

We have argued it out, since then, twenty times at least. We are no nearer reaching a conclusion than we were.