But aren't you setting a pretty lively pace, my boy?
You know I've always liked you, and I knew your grandfather rather well.

He was a good old chap, Monty, and he would hate to see you make ducks and drakes of his fortune." There was something in the Colonel's manner that softened Brewster, much as he hated to take a reproof from Barbara's father.

Once again he was tempted to tell the truth, but he pulled himself up in time.

"It's a funny old world, Colonel," he said; "and sometimes one's nearest friend is a stranger.

I know I seem a fool; but, after all, why isn't it good philosophy to make the most of a holiday and then settle back to work ?" "That is all very well, Monty," and Colonel Drew was entirely serious; "but the work is a hundred times harder after you have played to the limit You'll find that you are way beyond it.