"Captain, old scout," he said in a low, happy voice, "I've just told
sis. Put the whole proposition up to her, just as you told me. She
took it like a regular fellow. Your whole idea was one hundred per
cent right. Sis is inside now getting off that invitation to Miss
Cameron, asking her to come out day after to-morrow."
Larry involuntarily caught the veranda railing. "I hope it works out--
for the best," he said.
"Oh, it will--no doubt of it!" cried the exultant Dick. "And, Captain,
if it does, it'll be all your doing!"
CHAPTER XXIII
When Miss Sherwood's invitation reached Maggie, Barney and Old Jimmie
were with her. The pair had growled a lot, though not directly at
Maggie, at the seeming lack of progress Maggie had made during the
past week. Barney was a firm enough believer in his rogue's creed of
first getting your fish securely hooked; but, on the other hand, there
was the danger, if the hooked fish be allowed to remain too long in
the water, that it would disastrously shake itself free of the barb
and swim away. That was what Barney was afraid had been happening with
Dick Sherwood. Therefore he was thinking of returning to his abandoned
scheme of selling stock to Dick. He might get Dick's money in that
way, though of course not so much money, and of course not so safely.
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