You've in other words duties to her, of the most positive sort; and I don't see what other duties--as the others are presented to you--can be held to go before them." Chad looked at him with a smile.

"And you know of course about the others, eh ?--since it's you yourself who have done the presenting." "Much of it--yes--and to the best of my ability.

But not all--from the moment your sister took my place." "She didn't," Chad returned.

"Sally took a place, certainly; but it was never, I saw from the first moment, to be yours.

No one--with us--will ever take yours.