Jorian compared them to the Rhone and the--I forget the name of the river below Geneva--dirtyish; for there was a transparent difference in the Denewdney style of dress, and did I choose it I could sit and rule those two factions as despotically as Buonaparte his Frenchmen.

Ask me what I mean by scaling billows, Richie.

I will some day tell you.

I have done it all my life, and here I am.

But I thank heaven I have a son I love, and I can match him against the best on earth, and henceforward I live for him, to vindicate and right the boy, and place him in his legitimate sphere.