'
Jasper was very grateful for the suggestion. In that moment he
had reflected how rash it would be to write to Alfred Yule on
such a subject, with whatever prudence in expressing himself.
Such a letter, coming under the notice of the great Fadge, might
do its writer serious harm.
'Yes, you are right,' he repeated. 'I'll stop that rumour at its
source. I can't guess how it started; for aught I know, some
enemy hath done this, though I don't quite discern the motive.
Thank you very much for telling me, and still more for refusing
to believe that I could treat Mr Yule in that way, even as a
matter of business. When I said that I was despicable, I didn't
mean that I could sink quite to such a point as that. If only
because it was your father--'
He checked himself and they walked on for several yards without
speaking.
'In that case,' Jasper resumed at length, 'your father doesn't
think of me in a very friendly way?'
'He scarcely could--'
'No, no. And I quite understand that the mere fact of my working
for Fadge would prejudice him against me.
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