She has the old man's blood in her, and blood will tell." He had not dared to reveal the secret marriage in the decorous language of his carefully worded dispatch.

But one comfort was left him.

"I have the whip hand of them all," he murmured.

"I am in charge, and no one can displace me.

Jack Witherspoon knows nothing, and I can easily placate him by making him one of the estate's lawyers." The golden crown of the millionaire seemed to have descended upon his brows at last.
Yet, while he slept, the enemy was awake and sowed tares! At the Hoffman House Doctor Atwater and Witherspoon sat in conference long after the midnight chimes had sounded.