You
are, evidently, suspicious of Longworth. What you say really amounts to
this: that he, for some reason of his own, which I confess I cannot see
or understand, desires to delay forming this company until it is too
late.'
'I didn't say that.'
'You say what practically amounts to that. Either he is honest or he is
not. Now, we have to decide to-day, and here, whether we are going to
ignore him and go on with the forming of the company, or work with him.
Unless you can give some good reason for doing otherwise, I propose to
work with him. I think it will be very much worse if he leaves us now
than if he had never gone into it. People will ask why he left.'
'Probably he wouldn't leave, even if you wanted him to do so. He has your
signature to an agreement, and you have his.'
'Certainly.'
'I do not see how we can help ourselves.'
'Then I think these suspicions should be dropped, because you cannot work
with a man whom you suspect of being a rascal.'
'I quite admit of the justice of that, so I shall say nothing more.
Meanwhile, do you propose to wait until he comes back?'
'I shall write him to-night and ask him what he intends to do. I shall
tell him, as I have told him before, that time is pressing, and we want
to know what is being done.'
'Very well,' said John; 'I will wait till you get the answer to your
letter. In the meantime, I do not see that there is anything to do but
occupy this gorgeous office as well as I can, and wait to see what
turns up.
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