Mr.Benson." "Oh, come, come," said the other, very paternally, "we can't let you off like that.

This is business, my dear boy.

It would cost us money, after having made all our arrangements, if you changed your mind." "So I understand." "What do you mean ?" "I mean just what you think I mean, Mr.Benson." Wayne would have said that he could never forget the presence under any circumstances of his future wife, waiting, probably nervously, in the outer office; but he did.

The interest of the next hour drove out everything else.

Honaton was sent for from the exchange, a lawsuit was threatened, a bribe--he couldn't mistake it--offered.