It suggested alarming possibilities, and his skepticism concerning the intrinsic worth of his inherited "crown" was increased by it.
He paid frequent visits to the offices of Sylvester, Kuhn, and Graves in Pine Street.

Upon the senior partner, whom he esteemed and trusted not only as a business adviser but a friend, he depended for information concerning happenings at the Warren apartment.
Caroline sent him regular statements of her weekly expenditures, also bills for his approval, but she had written him but once, and then only a brief note.

The note brought by a messenger, accompanied a package containing the chain which he and Pearson selected with such deliberation and care at the Fifth Avenue jeweler's.

Under the existing circumstances, the girl wrote, she felt that she did not wish to accept presents from him and therefore returned this one.

He was alone when the note and package came and sat by the window of his room, looking out at the dismal prospect of back yards and clothes-lines, turning the leather case over and over in his hands.