Yes, he had been right, it had a strange look of his Janet--the wide-open eyes, the solemn mouth.

What was to become of that child if he failed her in her need?
Now Dickson was a practical man, and this view of the case brought him into a world which he understood.

"It's fair ridiculous," he reflected.

"Nobody there to take a grip of things.

Just a wheen Gorbals keelies and the lad Heritage.