"I never heard you talk so much nonsense, Loudon," said the host. -- "Well, it seemed to me there was sulfur in the air, so I talked for talking," returned the other. "But it was none of it nonsense." -- "Do you mean to say it was true?" cried Havens, -- "that about the opium and the wreck, and the blackmailing and the man who became your friend?" -- "Every last word of it," said Loudon.
