"If you go into the Horse Artillery, there won't be much money left when you have settled yours, so it might be prudent to begin some self-denial now.

Anyhow, if you get into debt again, you know the consequences." He raised his hand in dismissal and walked to the window when the lad went out.

He had not taken the line he meant to take, but Gerald often, so to speak, eluded him.

The lad had a way of hinting that they understood one another and Osborn vaguely suspected that he worked upon his prejudices; but he was a sportsman.

He had pluck and knew what the Osborn traditions demanded.