"I think you are right," said he; "it is the obvious
thing for them to try."

"Well, then," I said, "if they do it they are
doomed.

"Certainly."

They won't have the slightest show in the world."

"Of course they won't."

"It's dreadful, Clarence. It seems an awful pity."

The thing disturbed me so that I couldn't get any