"He hasn't gone into Mr.Morgan's automobile concern, has he ?" "No," Isabel smiled.

"The 'automobile concern' is all Eugene's, and it's so small I understand it's taken hardly anything.

No; your father has always prided himself on making only the most absolutely safe investments, but two or three years ago he and your Uncle George both put a great deal--pretty much everything they could get together, I think--into the stock of rolling-mills some friends of theirs owned, and I'm afraid the mills haven't been doing well." "What of that?
Father needn't worry.

You and I could take care of him the rest of his life on what grandfather--" "Of course," she agreed.

"But your father's always lived so for his business and taken such pride in his sound investments; it's a passion with him.