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At dinner the next evening Mr. Ffrench had a story to tell. It was the rather exciting story of the completion of Murdoch's labor, the night attack and his sudden departure. Exciting as it was, however, Mr. Ffrench did not relate it in his most vivid manner. His nervous ailments had increased of late, and he was not in a condition to be vivacious and dramatic. The incident came from him rather tamely, upon the whole.
"If it is the success he thinks it is," he terminated, "he is a made man -- and he is not the fellow to deceive himself. Well," he said, rather drearily, "I have said it would be so."