They were really like cousins to him, by this time.

And after they were all gone he rode home on Nora's back quite disconsolate, in spite of his wonderful fortune.
The lawyer, who had consented to stay at the mansion for a time, that the boy might not be lonely, had already mapped put a plan for the young heir's advancement.

As he rode beside Kenneth he said: "You ought to travel, and visit the art centers of Europe, and I shall try to find a competent tutor to go with you." "Can't you go yourself ?" asked the boy.
The lawyer hesitated.
"I'm getting old, and my clients are few and unimportant, aside from the Elmhurst interests," he said.

"Perhaps I can manage to go abroad with you." "I'd like that," declared the boy.

"And we'd stop in New York, wouldn't we, for a time ?" "Of course.