perhaps everything has worked out for the best."
Having satisfactorily settled the past and the present, they came by easy stages to discussing the future, and here developed that the two older men had a plan.
"Señor de Cordoba has agreed to transfer his American representation from Hodge and Story to our concern, Dudley," Sanford Drake announced in his usual pompous business manner. "We shall need a responsible person to go to Buenos Aires and make the final detailed arrangements on the spot. If you and Carmelita should find it possible to make the trip, it would give all the unpleasant notoriety connected with your late trouble time to blow over, and upon your return, say six months from now, you could both start out afresh."
"I shall, of course, insist that you both be my guests while you are in South America," Don Caesar added.
Thus miraculously was the future, which had already been disturbing Dudley and Carmelita, solved.
