'What bothers me,' said John, 'is knowing that all this has to be paid
for.'
'Ah, yes,' answered Wentworth; 'but by the time the debts become due I
hope we shall have plenty of money.'
'I must confess I do not understand Longworth in this matter. He seems to
be doing nothing; at least, he has nothing to show for what he has done,
and he does not appear to realize that time is an object with us; in
fact, that our company-forming has really become a race against time.'
'Well, we shall see very shortly what he is going to do. I have sent a
messenger for him to meet us here--he ought to be here now--and we must
certainly push things. There is no time to lose.'
'Has he said anything to you--he talks more freely with you than he does
to me--about what the next move is to be?'
'No; he has said nothing.'
'Well, don't you see the situation in which we stand? We are practically
doing nothing--leaving everything in his hands. Now, if he should tell us
some fine day that he can have nothing more to do with our project (and I
believe he is quite capable of it), here we are with our time nearly
spent, deeply in debt, and nothing done.'
'My dear John, what a brain you have for conjuring up awful
possibilities! Trust me, Longworth won't act in the way you suggest. It
would be dishonourable, and he is, so far as I know, an honourable man of
business. I think you take a certain prejudice against a person, and then
can see nothing good in anything he does.
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