Now you will have to excuse me--the market's kiting, and I've got to watch it.

Give my love to Ruth.

Your aunt and I will be out on the noon train for the funeral.

Good-by." It was what he had expected.

He would, perhaps, have stood a better chance if he had read him Peter's encouraging letter of the director's opinion of his Cumberland property, and he might also have brought him up standing (and gone away with the check in his pocket) if he had told him that the money was to save his own wife's daughter and grandchild from disgrace--but that secret was not his.