He will ask me to read it for him, and I'll do so, right an end.

Lord, what a breeze there'll be! I hope I shall be able to pull my lad through, though it very much depends on the old 'uns temper.

However, I shall soon know." Old Hawker was nearly blind, and, although an avaricious, suspicious old man, as a general rule, trusted implicitly on ordinary occasions to George and Madge in the management of his accounts, reflecting, with some reason, that it could not be their interest to cheat him.

Of late, however, he had been uneasy in his mind.

Madge, there was no denying, had got through a great deal more money than usual, and he was not satisfied with her account of where it had gone.