But I don't believe father, when on the point of making us rich, would swallow so much arsenic as he did." "What's that--arsenic ?" said Jennings, recalling the death of Tyke.
"Yes, sir.

It was this way.

Father was working at Rexton--" "At Rexton ?" said Jennings impatiently, "yes, yes, go on." "At a house near the railway station which I can point out, mother having seen it when she went to inquire." "Inquire about what ?" "About father's secret job.

He had one he used to go to for three hours every day by agreement with the foreman.

Father was very clever and could do all sorts of things.